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Quotation from The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

“Save an unfortunate Englishwoman from the smoking rock”

Johann David Wyss (spoken by Note carried by the albatross)

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter XVI, trans. W. H. G. Kingston (1879)

Portrait of Johann David Wyss

The message Fritz finds tied to an albatross's leg leads him to Jenny Montrose and opens the last movement of the story.

Citation: "Save an unfortunate Englishwoman from the smoking rock" — Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter XVI, trans. W. H. G. Kingston (1879). (id the-swiss-family-robinson-q5)

Portrait: The Family Robinson Crusoe, 1816, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain.

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