![]() ![]() ![]() ‘You’ve had more experience with natives than any of the rest of us.’ Bill looked serious and stared off to sea thoughtfully. “‘Think the chances are they’ll be friendly, Bill?’ the Captain was asking. But things go south when the ship wrecks and the Prebles and some of their crewmates wash up on a desert island, where the only people around are, you guessed it, terrifying natives: From there, Field backs off of the Injuns a little bit and chronicles Hitty’s first family, the Prebles, leaving on an eleven-month whaling voyage, as the patriarch finally gets the chance to captain his own ship. In the first twenty pages of Hitty, we get some hints that we have a rough go ahead of us, as Hitty’s original owners drop her in the woods (later recovering her) so they can dash away and avoid running into a group of scary “Injuns” on the road. ![]()
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