Erewhon, or, Over the range / by Samuel Butler with introduction and notes by Kenji Ishida.

  • Samuel Butler
Date:
1924
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Credit: Erewhon, or, Over the range / by Samuel Butler with introduction and notes by Kenji Ishida. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Erewhon CHAPTER I WASTE LANDS If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative would be tedious to him and painful to myself. Suffice it, that when I left home it was with the intention of going to some new colony, and eithel finding, or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly than in England. It will be seen that I did not succeed in my design, and that however much I may have met with that was new and strange, I have been unable to reap any pecuniary advantage. It is true, I imagine myself to have made a dis¬ covery which, if I can be the first to profit by it, will bring me a recompense beyond all money com¬ putation, and secure me a position such as has not been attained by more than some fifteen or sixteen persons, since the creation of the universe. But to
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