Gulliver's Travels
Why did Lemuel Gulliver originally go on his first voyage?
Why did lemuel gulliver originally go on his first voyage?
Why did lemuel gulliver originally go on his first voyage?
The surgeon Gulliver was apprenticed to recommended him to work as a ship's surgeon. Gulliver, always believing he would travel, accepted the job.
"........ I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts."
Gulliver's Travels