Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man, Vol. 2 of 2: Relating Particularly, His Shipwreck Near the South Pole; His Wonderful Passage Through a Subterraneous Cavern Into a Kind of New World; His There Meeting With a Gawry, or Flying Woman, Whole Life He Preserved, and Afterwards Married Her Upon examining the contents of another chalk. 1 found a long fcarlet cloak, laced, a cafe of razors, a pair of fciflars, and waving-glafs; a long wig, and two bob-wigs, and laid them by for I was determined, as I might poflibly have no other opportunity, to make my, felf appear as confiderable as I coukl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.