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Often appears with: the fear of death · natives of new holland · custom and the manners of a people · captivity and escape · avoid returning landing-place · arrow wound
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
“I apprehended the arrow might be poisoned, and paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it as well as I could.” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of th · vivid
On the fourth day in New Holland, Gulliver is spotted by naked natives, wounded deeply in the left knee by an arrow, refuses to return, hides by a brook, and prefers captives over living as a Yahoo.
the natives. I continued three days feeding on oysters and limpets, to save my own provisions; and I fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me great relief. On the fourth day, venturing out early a little too far, I saw twenty or thirty natives upon a height not above five hundred yards from me. They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke. One of …