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共 49 段- Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet, as I
- The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I appr
- The other creature, frighted with the flash of fire and the
- It is not easy for any one, who has not been in the like con
- I was under some apprehensions during my absence from the la
- I have already observed how I brought all my goods into this
- The very next day after this wall was finished, I had almost
- Then it followed, most naturally: it is God that has made it
- Accordingly I dug up a piece of ground, as well as I could,
- I stayed by it to load my gun, and then coming away, I could
- But all I could make use of, was all that was valuable: I ha
- About four o’clock in the evening, being then within about a
- As this was also about half way between my other habitation
- When I came a little out of that part of the island, I stood
- However, after some pause, I recovered myself, and began to
- Under the power of this impression, I hastened back to my ca
- About a year and a half after I had entertained these notion
- I began now to consider, that, having two mouths to feed ins
- From this time, I confess, I had a mind to venture over, and
- Those that were in the canoe worked hard to get out of gun-s
- I jumped up, and, regardless of danger, I went out as soon a
- The other prisoners had better usage; two of them were kept
- “Well,” said I, “I will send for them, and talk with them fo
- But, as I have said, this was not the main thing that kept m
- The night was coming on, and the night began to be dusky, wh
- I farmed upon my own land, I had no rent to pay, was limited
- I was heartily sorry that I disturbed him, and not only left
- “Well, Friday,” said I, “do you think we shall find any body
- Upon this they were all trooping away, with every man a gun,
- Upon this, after long debate, it was conceived that they sho
- When they came into the hut, there they sat all bound; for w
- However, all being silent again, and they not knowing what t
- The first thing they concluded when they saw what their circ
- The Spaniards said, they had indeed at first disarmed and ex
- I then pressed him to tell me what was the second complaint
- The clergyman shook his head, with a great concern in his fa
- [Here he was at a great loss to make her understand that God
- “I thought my stomach was full after this, as it would have
- I had no more business to go to the East Indies, than a man
- All this while they fired not a gun, because they would not
- After a long stay here, and many proposals made for my retur
- This latter part we found to concern us directly; and though
- With this I told him, that this was the very ship they had a
- If my partner, who was no way concerned with my young man, m
- When we had travelled one day’s journey, the guides, who wer
- I could not but discover an infinite satisfaction; that I wa
- This was very friendly in the governor. However, when it cam
- It is true, within doors we were warm, the houses being clos
- In five days more we came to Veussima, upon the river Witzog