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影视仓 I knew this must be the young woman who was his mother's servant,for there was no other Christian woman on the island: so I beganto persuade him not to do anything of that kind rashly, or becausebe found himself in this solitary circumstance. I represented tohim that he had some considerable substance in the world, and goodfriends, as I understood by himself, and the maid also; that themaid was not only poor, and a servant, but was unequal to him, shebeing six or seven and twenty years old, and he not above seventeenor eighteen; that he might very probably, with my assistance, makea remove from this wilderness, and come into his own country again;and that then it would be a thousand to one but he would repent hischoice, and the dislike of that circumstance might bedisadvantageous to both. I was going to say more, but heinterrupted me, smiling, and told me, with a great deal of modesty,that I mistook in my guesses - that he had nothing of that kind inhis thoughts; and he was very glad to hear that I had a
At the same time I ordered the mate to go into the great cabin, andsee what condition the poor passengers were in; and if they werealive, to comfort them, and give them what refreshment was proper:and the surgeon gave him a large pitcher, with some of the preparedbroth which he had given the mate that was on board, and which hedid not question would restore them gradually. I was not satisfiedwith this; but, as I said above, having a great mind to see thescene of misery which I knew the ship itself would present me with,in a more lively manner than I could have it by report, I took thecaptain of the ship, as we now called him, with me, and wentmyself, a little after, in their boat.影视仓 Away runs the Englishman, frightened and amazed, as if he wasbewitched, to the governor Spaniard, and tells him they were allundone, for there were strangers upon the island, but he could nottell who they were. The Spaniard, pausing a while, says to him,"How do you mean - you cannot tell who? They are the savages, tobe sure." "No, no," says the Englishman, "they are men in clothes,with arms." "Nay, then," says the Spaniard, "why are you soconcerned! If they are not savages they must be friends; for thereis no Christian nation upon earth but will do us good rather thanharm." While they were debating thus, came up the threeEnglishmen, and standing without the wood, which was new planted,hallooed to them. They presently knew their voices, and so all thewonder ceased. But now the admiration was turned upon anotherquestion - What could be the matter, and what made them come backagain?
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第8章 个人赛夺金，郭旭也干了
From hence we directed our course for the West Indies, steeringaway S. and S. by E. for about twenty days together, sometimeslittle or no wind at all; when we met with another subject for ourhumanity to work upon, almost as deplorable as that before.
WIFE. - But you say me He is great, much great, have much greatpower; can makee kill when He will: why He no makee kill when youno serve Him? no say O to Him? no be good mans?
I was now alone in a most remote part of the world, for I was nearthree thousand leagues by sea farther off from England than I wasat my island; only, it is true, I might travel here by land overthe Great Mogul's country to Surat, might go from thence to Bassoraby sea, up the Gulf of Persia, and take the way of the caravans,over the desert of Arabia, to Aleppo and Scanderoon; from thence bysea again to Italy, and so overland into France. I had another waybefore me, which was to wait for some English ships, which werecoming to Bengal from Achin, on the island of Sumatra, and getpassage on board them from England. But as I came hither withoutany concern with the East Indian Company, so it would be difficultto go from hence without their licence, unless with great favour ofthe captains of the ships, or the company's factors: and to both Iwas an utter stranger.
They had taken three prisoners, as I observed; and these threebeing stout young fellows, they made them servants, and taught themto work for them, and as slaves they did well enough; but they didnot take their measures as I did by my man Friday, viz. to beginwith them upon the principle of having saved their lives, and theninstruct them in the rational principles of life; much less didthey think of teaching them religion, or attempt civilising andreducing them by kind usage and affectionate arguments. As theygave them their food every day, so they gave them their work too,and kept them fully employed in drudgery enough; but they failed inthis by it, that they never had them to assist them and fight forthem as I had my man Friday, who was as true to me as the veryflesh upon my bones.
ather Simon did notcome up to his character by a great deal; for though this friar hadno appearance of a criminal levity in him, yet he had not that fundof Christian zeal, strict piety, and sincere affection to religionthat my other good ecclesiastic had.
The Spaniards were often saying to one another, and to the twohonest Englishmen who remained behind, how quietly and comfortablythey lived, now these three turbulent fellows were gone. As fortheir coming again, that was the remotest thing from their thoughtsthat could be imagined; when, behold, after two-and-twenty days'absence, one of the Englishmen being abroad upon his planting work,sees three strange men coming towards him at a distance, with gunsupon their shoulders.
[He was justly reproved by his wife, for she was more serious thanhe at first.]
They were going on in this little thriving position when the threeunnatural rogues, their own countrymen too, in mere humour, and toinsult them, came and bullied them, and told them the island wastheirs: that the governor, meaning me, had given them thepossession of it, and nobody else had any right to it; and thatthey should build no houses upon their ground unless they would payrent for them. The two men, thinking they were jesting at first,asked them to come in and sit down, and see what fine houses theywere that they had built, and to tell them what rent they demanded;and one of them merrily said if they were the ground-landlords, hehoped if they built tenements upon their land, and madeimprovements, they would, according to the custom of landlords,grant a long lease: and desired they would get a scrivener to drawthe writings. One of the three, cursing and raging, told them theyshould see they were not in jest; and going to a little place at adistance, where the honest men had made a fire to dress t
In passing this forest (after all our dangers were, to ourimagination, escaped), I thought, indeed, we must have beenplundered and robbed, and perhaps murdered, by a troop of thieves:of what country they were I am yet at a loss to know; but they wereall on horseback, carried bows and arrows, and were at first aboutforty-five in number. They came so near to us as to be within twomusket-shot, and, asking no questions, surrounded us with theirhorses, and looked very earnestly upon us twice; at length, theyplaced themselves just in our way; upon which we drew up in alittle line, before our camels, being not above sixteen men in all.Thus drawn up, we halted, and sent out the Siberian servant, whoattended his lord, to see who they were; his master was the morewilling to let him go, because he was not a little apprehensivethat they were a Siberian troop sent out after him. The man cameup near them with a flag of truce, and called to them; but thoughhe spoke several of their languages, or dialects of languagesrat
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