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And how was it possible a man should come there?
I was now at a great loss
which way to get home with my boat!
I stretched out my hands to it, with eager
wishes - O happy desert! But now I come to a new scene of my life. I stood like
one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I lay here, however, two
days, because the wind blowing pretty fresh at ESE. But now I come to a new
scene of my life. Then, to see how like a king I dined, too, all alone,
attended by my servants!
Be pleased to take a sketch of my figure, as follows.
It deprives them of the use of those means which reason offers for their
relief.
Poll, as if he had been my favourite, was the only person permitted to
talk to me. What marks were there of any other footstep? This was acting with
some prudence, and I went to work with courage. I stretched out my hands to it,
with eager wishes - O happy desert!
This was acting with some prudence, and I
went to work with courage.
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life
of man! Poll, as if he had been my favourite, was the only person permitted to
talk to me. Then, to see how like a king I dined, too, all alone, attended by
my servants! But I did not then know what I afterwards learned, that hunger
will tame a lion.
I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an
apparition. I was now at a great loss which way to get home with my boat! This
was acting with some prudence, and I went to work with courage.
However, I
found that being between two great currents - viz. It is impossible to express
the comfort this gave me.
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