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Title: The Little Savage

Author: Captain Frederick Marryat

Release Date: May 21, 2007 [EBook #21551]

Language: English

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The Little Savage, by Captain Marryat.

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Captain Frederick Marryat was born July 10 1792, and died August 8 1848.
He retired from the British navy in 1828 in order to devote himself to
writing. In the following 20 years he wrote 26 books, many of which are
among the very best of English literature, and some of which are still
in print.

Marryat had an extraordinary gift for the invention of episodes in his
stories. He says somewhere that when he sat down for the day's work, he
never knew what he was going to write. He certainly was a literary
genius.

"The Little Savage" was published in 1848, the twenty-sixth book to flow
from Marryat's pen. It was completed after his death by a member of his
family. It is intended for children, and its religious overtones are in
contrast to Marryat's other works. He was far from irreligious, but
this book is definitely in a different style.

This e-book was transcribed in 1998 by Nick Hodson, and was reformatted
in 2003, and again in 2005.

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THE LITTLE SAVAGE, BY CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT.

CHAPTER ONE.

I am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree
with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of
people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their
own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I
believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an
uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell
my own story.

My first recollections are, that I was in company with a man upon this
island, and that we walked often along the sea-shore. It was rocky and
difficult to climb in many parts, and the man used to