The things we do!

CHAPTER XXIV
In which the Newcome Brothers once more meet together in Unity

His narrative, as the judicious reader no doubt is aware, is written
maturely and at ease, long after the voyage is over, whereof it recounts
the adventures and perils; the winds adverse and favourable; the storms,
shoals, shipwrecks, islands, and so forth, which Clive Newcome met in his
early journey in life. In such a history events follow each other without
necessarily having a connection with one another. One ship crosses
another ship, and after a visit from one captain to his comrade, they
sail away each on his course. The Clive Newcome meets a vessel which
makes signals that she is short of bread and water; and after supplying
her, our captain leaves her to see her no more. One or two of the vessels
with which we commenced the voyage together, part company in a gale, and
founder miserably; others, after being wofully battered in the tempest,
make port, or are cast upon surprising islands where all sorts of
unlooked-for prosperity awaits the lucky crew.


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