title: Abram's Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island
author:  Nathaniel Philbrick 
description: Nathaniel Philbrick, a leading authority on the history of Nantucket, is director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. A champion sailboat racer, he lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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  # The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER 1
  
  
  CHAPTER 2
  
  
  CHAPTER 3
  
  
  CHAPTER 4
  
  
  CHAPTER 5
  
  
  CHAPTER 6
  
  
  CHAPTER 7
  
  
  CHAPTER 8
  
  
  CHAPTER 9
  
  
  CHAPTER 10
  
  
  CHAPTER 11
  
  
  CHAPTER 12
  
  
  CHAPTER 13
  
  
  CHAPTER 14
  
  
  CHAPTER 15
  
  
  CHAPTER 16
  
  
  CHAPTER 17
  
  
  CHAPTER 18
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Edited by K. Kay Shearin
  
  
  This narrative of an imaginary voyage was first published in 1827.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER 1
  
  
  
  
  
    
  There is an island in the Indian Ocean, so unfortunate as not yet to
  
  
  have been visited either by Discovery Ships or Missionary Societies. It
  
  
  is a place where all those things are constantly found which men most
  
  
  desire to see, and with the sight of which they are seldom favoured. It
  
  
  abounds in flowers, and fruit, and sunshine. Lofty mountains, covered
  
  
  with green and mighty forests, except where the red rocks catch the
  
  
  fierce beams of the