The Little Savage

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The Little Savage is by Captain Frederick Marryat. The narrator says he believes he is the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. The narrator says his first recollections are of being in company with a man upon this island, where they walked often along the sea-shore. The narrator calls the man very unkind to him, which may appear strange, as the narrator was the only companion he had, and says the man was of a morose and gloomy disposition.

A tornado in the text lasted two hours without interruption, while the lightning darted in every direction, with peals of thunder which were deafening. A narrator straining his eyes to see the vessel sees in a flash of lightning that she was dismasted, rolling in the awful breakers. The narrator calls the appearance of Jackson the most unpleasant part of the vision.

About the author

Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars before becoming a popular novelist. A pioneer of the sea story, he drew on his own service for rousing nautical tales and also wrote the children's classic The Children of the New Forest.