The story of Peter Treegate

Author’s note: I am writing this on the cause and effect of the climax of my book John Treegate’s musket.

The story of Peter Treegate takes a turn for the worst when he is caught in a huge hurricane at sea while aboard the Maid of Malden as a galley boy. The hurricane attacked the Maid from all angles for hours before they got to the eye of the hurricane, but the calm only gave them about twenty minutes of work and repairs before it attacked again. It ripped away the mast and turned it into a battering ram in order to sink the Maid and take her crew to the bottom of the ocean, all except for Peter who was found five days after on a beach by the “Maclaren of Spey”

All of that happened because he had seen a murder happen and didn’t want to be blamed so he hopped on a boat to try to get away. But the real disaster is what happened because of that hurricane. A letter sent to his father saying they thought him dead because of the hurricane. He develops amnesia and all he knows is that his name is Peter but he can’t remember his last name so he spends a long time with the Maclaren who trains him how to hunt and survive. And all of this happened because he jumped on the boat.