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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	father_n	mother_n	4,215	5	7.2898	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70052	A new discovery of Terra incognita Australis, or, The southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man, who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived 35 years in that country and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, studies and wars of those southern people, and of some animals peculiar to that place ... translated from the French copy ...; Terre australe connue. English	Foigny, Gabriel de, ca. 1630-1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing F1395; ESTC R20648	83,070	196

my more particular Satisfaction I receiv'd a Memoir from a Father Jesuit of Lisbon in Portugal when I was at Villa Franca which contains an Account of my Birth and the Adventures of my younger Years as I am about to relate My Father was called James Sadeur and my Mother Willemetta Ilin both of them were of Chatillon upon Bar of the jurisdiction of Rochel in Campagne a Province of France My Father knew many Secrets in Mathematicks which were owing more to his own Genius than the Precepts of a Master particularly he excelled in the inventions of facilitating the removal of great Bodies or Burthens Monsieur de Vare who had then some Intendance over Sea Affairs being acquainted with him brought him to Bordeaux and from thence to the West-Indies with promises which he never perform'd to him altho he knew him to be so necessary for his Service My Mother who had followed him prest him to return after 9 or 10 Months aboed at Port-Royal and being imbark't April 25. 1603. she brought me into the World 15 days after they had been on Shipboard Monsieur de Sarre who was Captain of the Vessel was pleased to be my God-father I was Conceived in America and brought forth upon the Ocean an infallible presage of the miseries which were to attend me during my whole Life The Voyage was happy enough in all the places which were esteemed dangerous even to the Coasts of Aquitain where an unexpected Tempest so furiously engaged the Vessel that it was cast upon the Coasts of Spain and Shipwreckt near the Cape of Finisterre in the Province of Galicia in Spain with the loss of my Father and Mother The same Memoir says that my Mother seeing the Ship let in the Water on every side lifted me out of my Cradle and embracing me with an extream tenderness and abundance of Tears said Ah my dear Child have I brought thee forth upon the Waters to see thee so soon swallowed up by them at least I shall have this consolation of perishing with thee She had hardly finish'd this complaint when a more impetuous Wave than any of the former breaking into the Vessel bore her away from my Father In this extremity every one was sensible that nothing was more dear than the preservation of his own Life only my Parents who preferring me to themselves did expose themselves to the evident danger of perishing to preserve me alive the love that my Mother had for me made her not forsake me for in the lifting me up continually with her arms above the Waters she her self was at last choak-with them the Courage which my Father shewed on this occasion was also very particular for forgetting himself instead of making to the Shore as did the rest he came to us by the Mercy of the Waves and imbracing my Mother who yet lift me up he drew us just to the Bankside and set us upon the Sand but either having wholly spent himself upon this occasion or believing that we were Dead he fell down in a Swound holding me in his Arms altho every one was sufficiently perplext yet there was none that did not consider this spectacle and was not amazed at it many themselves running to relieve us when it was perceived that I had yet any motion they took me from the Arms of my Father and held me before a fire which the Inhabitants had kindled out of compassion to us There was no sign of life in my Mother and having laid her for some time before the fire they were perswaded that she had more need of a Burial Those who had more particularly known my Father deplored his fate with Cries that drew Tears from the Inhabitants of the Countrey O Man of eternal memory said some O too generous soul must thou dye for being willing to save the life of thy Family Ah said others never was there such a Tragedy the Mother to expose her self for the Child the Father for the Mother and yet those generous efforts to terminate in the death of each other I know not whether so much lamentation made my Father sensible but he open'd his Eyes and with a feeble and languishing voice said Where art thou my Dear this unexpected speech surprized the Company and when they answered him not readily enough he added Then let us all three dye together these were his last words and then he clos'd his eyes and dyed 'T is said that he signalized himself on many occasions in this Voyage but he drew the admiration of every one in this extremity All those who saw him thus expire could not look upon me without being moved with pitty Poor destitute said they what can become of thee can any good fortune attend thee in this world thou being the cause of their death who gave thee thy life Some believed that I could not long survive them after the violent struglings which I had undergone in the Shipwrick But alas this was but the beginning of a Tragedy which I have now continued for about fifty five Years with so great and strange Catastiophes that they can never be represented in their whole extent altho I my self should relate them all the heat of the fire soon impower'd me to weep and lament with such a noise as gave them to understand that I was out of danger An Inhabitant of the Countrey who knew French enough to understand what had past remembred that he had an only Son who dyed not long before and resembled me this mov'd him to use his interest to get me they represented to Monsieur de Sacre that this was a very favourable opportunity and that he could not easily refuse it without putting me in evident danger he thereupon consented being rather constrain'd by necessity than any other consideration this man soon adapted me into the place of his Son and his Wife having heard the whole relation embrac'd and entertain'd me with great Caresses Monsieur de Sarre and some others of the most skilful in the Vessel knowing that they were near to St. James's took a resolution of visiting the Church which is consecrated to God under the name of this Saint and there by good fortune they found Merchants of their own acquaintance who equip'd and gave them opportunity of returning creditably to Oleron Monsieur de Sarre after his arrival began to particularize his adventures to his Wife and describe the Shipwreck which he had escap'd but it was some time before she could attend to it for the joy of having received her Husband safe from the danger of so long and tedious a Voyage this wholly took her thoughts in the first moments of his return But some time after she prayed her Husband to give her the History of the Shipwreck and then she could not forbear admiring the Conjugal and paternal Love of my Parents who for my sake underwent a voluntary death and instead of conceiving an indignation for me she took such an affection to me especially when

other Shipwrack had given me Experience and Faith I had sought for a light Plauck during the dangers of the Tempest and I will say it to my shame that being far enough removed from the approaches of death I always appeared very indifferent as to my Life but in this evident danger I could think of nothing else but how to save my self I floated for many hours by the means of my Plank with such a tossing and turning over and over that I can't now think of it without horror The Waves did so often plunge me under and overturn me that tho I held out as long as I could yet at last I lost both knowledge and thinking and truly I knew not what became of me nor by what means I was preserved from death I only remember that coming to my self I opened my eyes and found a calm Sea I perceived an Isle very near and I felt my hands so clencht to the Plank that I could hardly loose them and my singers were so crooked that I could not by any means bring them to themselves the sight of this Island encouraged me very much and infine being come on shore I drag'd my self under a Tree without thinking of any thing but languishing and expecting death in a little time I found under this Tree two fruits about the bigness and like in Colour to our Pomegranets with this difference that their tast appeared to me much more delicate substantial and nourishing having eaten the first my spirits recovered and my heat grew light and having eaten the second I sound my self sufficiently satisfied but I was so bruised that I was in great pain to bear my self up so I lay down and fell into so deep a sleep that I was at least 24 hours before I awakt after this sleep I found that I was not in the least a weary I saw that my Cloaths were dry and the Sun shone and inspired me with a courage and hope I found two other fruits which I did eat and having applyed my self to find out the Elevation of the Sun I judged that I was 33 deg Lat. South but I knew not the Longitude having rested my self again I resolved to advance into the Isle to discover if there were any Inhabitants I plainly saw the appearance of some ways but they led into very thick Bushes where I could not pass without stooping which gave me very strange thoughts having found a tree much higher than the rest I thought that if I climbed to the top of it I might discover some place or other but as I got up I heard a great noise and I saw two prodigious flying Beasts which came to the top of the tree obliged me to get down a little faster than I got up Be not surprized at the name of Beast which I here gave to the Birds for they were so very large that I was frighted at them and speak then as I thought I got down with all the speed imaginable but I was no sooner down but heard so frightful a Cry that I expected every moment to be devoured In fine coming to my self I reflected upon the misery I saw my self reduc'd to I concluded that it were better to dye forthwith than to seek to languish any longer after all I said there 's a necessity that I dye by some means or other and I cannot shun one danger but run into a greater I then made a resolute preparation for death and remembring that my Father and Mother expir'd upon the Sea shore I made thither where I had left my Plank I had scarce left my place but I was followed by a great number of Animals which I could not distinguish from one another nevertheless I had my judgment as ready as could possibly be expected upon such an occasion I thought I saw certain kinds of Horses but with pointed Heads and claw-footed I can't tell whether these were not of those Beasts which came to light upon the tree where I was but they had Wings and Feathers I saw certain kinds of great Dogs and many other sorts of Animals which don 't at all resemble any that we have in Europe they made great Crys so soon as they perceiv'd me and as they approacht nearer and nearer they redoubled the Noise I resolved to defend my life and took my Plank and began to exercise it in turning and returning it which made 'em very attentive till two of the largest Beasts approacht to come in with me I turned to one of them and struck it so roughly that it ran back to the other Animals which set 'em all on howling I was seized with an extreme fear at the redoubling of these terrible cries and in great hast took three fruits of the Tree which I have spoken of and cast my self into the Water with my Plank after having swam such a distance as it was reasonable enough for me to believe I was out of all danger I turned my eyes toward the Isle and I saw upon the shoar all that great number of Animals which I fled from part of them put themselves readily to swim and pursued me with that vigour and hast that they were not long before they came up to me when I saw that I could not escape I turned towards them and presented the end of my Plank to them with success happy enough for as they prest on to take and bite the end they made me advance as fast as themselves this management continued till I arrived at a small kind of a little Isle which floated upon the Water and which carried me away swift enough to remove the means of my Enemies joyning me they followed me nevertheless with a Courage or rather with an encreased Rage till they dispaired of being able to come at me again but at last my Isle happening to stoop on a sudden they had time of coming up to me again I scarce knew what to think and began to make unprofitable reflections in devising the cause of the Immobility of the Isle whose motion had been so favourable to me I saw four of those great flying Animals which I have spoken of which came to the assistance of the others when they were ready to fall upon me I covered my self with my plank to avoid their first attacks which were so rude that with a stroak with their Beak they pierc'd it thro' 't was then that my Isle raising it self suddenly with an extreme impetuosity shakt me and threw me more than 50 Paces from it I believed that it was a kind of Whale which Naturalists mention For one of these monstrous Birds placing her self upon its back thrust her Talons into its flesh it lifted it self up as I thought above one hundred Cubits out of the Water with a noise as terrible as that of Thunder This toss wholly conquer'd my spirits so that I knew not what became of me then but my crooked fingers were the cause that I quitted not my Plank being a little come