A Voyage to the Moon

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Having by a train of fortunate circumstances accomp-lished a voyage of which the history of mankind affords no example; having moreover exerted every faculty of body and mind to make my adventures useful to my countrymen and even to mankind by imparting to them the acquisition of secrets in physics and morals of which they had not formed the faintest conception - I flattered myself that both in the character of traveller and public benefactor I had earned for myself an immortal name. But how these fond these justifiable hopes have been answered the following narrative will show. On my return to this my native State as soon as it was noised abroad that I had met with extraordinary adventures and made a most wonderful voyage crowds of people pressed eagerly to see me. I at first met their inquiries with a cautious silence which however but sharpened their curiosity. At length I was visited by a near relation with whom I felt less disposed to reserve. With friendly solicitude he inquired how much I had made by my voyage; and when he was informed that although I had added to my knowledge I had not improved my fortune he stared at me a while and remarking that he had business at the Bank as well as an appointment on 'Change suddenly took his leave.