Excerpt from El Cautivo: An Episode From Don Quixote (d104 Based on the Edition of the Royal Spanish Academy); Edited With an Introduction, Grammatical and Explanatory Notes and a Spanish-English Vocabulary The present history - which appears in the first part of don, Quixote, chapters thirty-nine, forty, and forty-one - was believed, even by eminent men like Father Martin Sarmiento, to be an account of the chief personal experiences of Cervantes, during his captivity in Algiers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.