Gulliver's Travels
What prompted Gulliver to go on the third voyage?
What prompted Gulliver to go on the third voyage? 10 marks
What prompted Gulliver to go on the third voyage? 10 marks
Gulliver had the opportunity to serve as the head surgeon, as well as have his salary increased. None-theless, the most important reason for going on the third voyage was the adventure..... his thirst to see the world.
But repeating his visits often, expressing his joy to find I me in good health, asking, “whether I were now settled for life?” adding, “that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months,” at last he plainly invited me, though with some apologies, to be surgeon of the ship; “that I should have another surgeon under me, beside our two mates; that my salary should be double to the usual pay; and that having experienced my knowledge in sea-affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any engagement to follow my advice, as much as if I had shared in the command.”
He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject this proposal; the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.
Gulliver's Travels