Hunilla ("The Encantadas") Timeline and Summary

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Hunilla ("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.