Editing Watership Down (section)

===Part 1: The Journey===
[[File:Watership Down.gif|thumb|left|The real Watership Down, near the [[Hampshire]] village of [[Kingsclere]], in 1975]]
In the [[Sandleford]] [[Warren (burrow)|warren]], Fiver, a [[runt]]y young rabbit who is a [[Clairvoyance|seer]], receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Richard |title=Watership Down |date=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=England, UK |isbn=0-14-003958-9 |pages=18–20}}</ref><ref group=lower-alpha>The map in the front of the book indicates the story begins in the real-life [[Wash Common]], just beyond the western tip of the park and parish of [[Sandleford]], on the Berkshire-Hampshire border.</ref> He and his brother Hazel fail to convince the Threarah, their Chief Rabbit, of the need to evacuate; they then try to convince the other rabbits, but only succeed in gaining nine followers, all bucks (males) and no does (females). Captain Holly of the Sandleford Owsla, the warren's military [[caste]], accuses the group of fomenting dissension against the Threarah. He tries to stop them from leaving, but is driven off.

Once out in the world, the traveling group of rabbits finds itself following the leadership of Hazel, who had been considered an unimportant member of the warren. The group travels far through dangerous territory. Bigwig and Silver, both former Owsla and the strongest rabbits among them, protect the others, helped by Hazel's good judgement and the ingenuity of the clever rabbit Blackberry. Along the way, they cross the [[River Enborne]], and evade a badger, a dog, a crow, and a car. <!---DO NOT change this to cat. They cross a road and avoid a car. No cats appear in this story until they get to Nuthanger Farm.--> Hazel and Bigwig also stop three rabbits from attempting to return to the Sandleford warren.

A rabbit named Cowslip invites Hazel's group to join his warren, where a farmer leaves food for the rabbits and shoots all the predators. Fiver senses death and deception in the new warren, but the rest of Hazel's group, enjoying the peace and good food, decide to ignore Fiver's warnings and the strange and evasive behaviour of the new rabbits. Later, Bigwig is caught in a [[snare trap|snare]], only surviving the ordeal thanks to Blackberry and Hazel's quick thinking. Fiver deduces the truth, and admonishes the rest in a wild lecture; the farmer feeds and protects the rabbits so he can [[Cuniculture|harvest them for meat and skins]], and Cowslip's rabbits invited the guests into their warren to increase their own odds of survival. The Sandleford rabbits, badly shaken, continue on their journey. They are joined by Strawberry, a buck who deserts Cowslip's warren.