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n--The nature of the light CHAPTER XIII. The author lays in a store against the dark weather--Hears voice--His thoughts thereon--Persuades himself it was a dream--Hears them again--Determines to see if any one lodged in the rock--Is satisfied there is nobody--Observations on what he saw--Finds a strong weed like whip-cord--Makes a dragnet--Lengthens it--Catches a monster--Its description--Makes oil of it CHAPTER XIV. The author passes the summer pleasantly--Hears the voices in the winter--Ventures out--Sees a strange sight on the lake--His uneasiness at it--His dream--Soliloquy--Hears the voices again, and perceives a great shock on his building--Takes up a beautiful woman--He thinks her dead, but recovers her--A description of her--She stays with him CHAPTER XV. He is afraid of losing his new mistress--They live together all winter--A remark on that--They begin to know each others language--A long discourse between them at cross purposes--She flies--They engage to be man and wife CHAPTER XVI. The author's disappointment at first going to bed with his new wife--Some strange circumstances relating thereto--She resolves several questions he asks her, and clears up his fears as to the voices--A description of swangeans CHAPTER XVII. Youwarkee cannot bear a strong light--Her husband makes her spectacles, which help her--A description of them CHAPTER XVIII. Youwarkee with child--The author's stock of provisions--No beast or fish in Youwarkee's country--The voices again--Her reason for not seeing those who uttered 'em--She bears a son--A hard speech in her lying-in--Divers birds appear--Their eggs gathered--How the author kept account of time CHAPTER XIX. His concern about clothing for Pedro, his eldest son--His discourse with his wife about the ship--Her flight to it--His melancholy reflections 'till her return--An account of what she had done, and of what she brought--She clothes her children and takes a second flight CHAPTER XX. The author observes her flight--A description of a glumm in the graundee--She finds out the gulf not far from the ship--Brings home more goods--Makes her a gown by her husband's instruction CHAPTER XXI. The author gets a breed of poultry--By what means--Builds them a house--How he managed to keep them in winter CHAPTER XXII. Reflections on mankind--The author wants to be with his ship--Projects going, but perceives it impracticable--Youwarkee offers
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