My Adventures and the End of My Life

'I have lived, in fact, more than one thousand years in this sea girt island of yours. So strange and grim and varied have been my experiences that i am tempted to set them down with a melancholy faith in my own uniqueness,' he writes. 'The first 30 years of my life, it be guessed, were full of the frailties and shortcomings of an ordinary mortal.' He goes on to describe his travels around the world before setting out for Britain.