Hunilla ("The Encantadas") Timeline and Summary
MoreHunilla ("The Encantadas") Timeline and Summary
- Hunilla and her new husband, Felipe, and her brother, Truxill, went to tiny Norfolk Island to collect tortoise oil.
- They paid the captain who left them there and said he would return for them, but he didn't.
- Instead, Felipe and Truxill die in a boating accident.
- Hunilla is pregnant, but her baby is stillborn.
- A passing ship lands, and she is raped by the sailors.
- Melville's ship finds her, and takes her aboard at last.
- They sell the turtle oil she collected and give her the money.
- They leave her at Payta in Peru.