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11 - Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy by Barbara Hofland · Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

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  Speaker 1: The Young Crusoe or the Shipwrecked Boy by Barbara Hoflin,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, account of mister Crusoe's departure from the island,
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  Speaker 1: his illness, arrival at the cape, distress, and departure for Ceylon,
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  Speaker 1: sets out for the island, his arrival and happy surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Our readers will not be surprised to learn that at
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  Speaker 1: the time when mister Crusoe parted from Charles, he was
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  Speaker 1: suffering from the beginning of a bad fever, which they
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  Speaker 1: had both caught from poor Captain Gordon, who had died
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  Speaker 1: of it. Sambo escaped partly because the inhabitants of India
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  Speaker 1: are not equally subject to suffering this complaint with strangers,
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  Speaker 1: and partly because he had never been employed about the
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  Speaker 1: person of the deceased as they had, nor had he
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  Speaker 1: used his clothes or slept in his bed as they did.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Croussou had no idea that his poor friend had
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  Speaker 1: an infectious fever, though he knew he was ill, and
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  Speaker 1: he thought that fatigue and anxiety had quite as great
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  Speaker 1: a share in his death as any actual complaint. And
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  Speaker 1: under the same persuasion, when his own head ached and
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  Speaker 1: his limbs felt unable to perform their office. He concluded
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  Speaker 1: that sorrow and toil had been too much for him,
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  Speaker 1: and became more than ever anxious to escape from a
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  Speaker 1: place where he could neither obtain comfort nor help, and
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  Speaker 1: where his poor wife could never hear from him, and
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  Speaker 1: of course must suffer all the agonies of grief and
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  Speaker 1: solicitude under which he now languished himself. Mister Crousau was
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  Speaker 1: not aware that his son was unwell at all, since
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  Speaker 1: he forbore all complaint lest he should add to his
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  Speaker 1: father's troubles, and showed so much true heroism in making
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  Speaker 1: the best of their misfortunes that mister Crousau did not doubt.
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  Speaker 1: But he would diligently watch at one end of the
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  Speaker 1: island whilst he was at the other, And as he
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  Speaker 1: had much reliance on Sambo's accuracy of sight, he hoped
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  Speaker 1: that one or the other would see inhal the vessel,
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  Speaker 1: which his servant maintained he had seen. The day was
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly sultry, the terrible storm which was coming on rendered
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  Speaker 1: the air heavy and unwholesome. In every step which the
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  Speaker 1: invalid took rendered him less equal to his task, so
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  Speaker 1: that when he arrived at the little promontory. It was
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  Speaker 1: with the utmost difficulty that he could suspend the sheet
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  Speaker 1: he had carried with him to the tree, after which
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  Speaker 1: he sunk down exhausted. It had been his ful intention
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  Speaker 1: to swim out and endeavor to secure the boat, but
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  Speaker 1: this he soon found to be utterly impossible, as his
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  Speaker 1: disorder being greatly accelerated by the state of the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: He became rapidly so ill as to be absolutely helpless.
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  Speaker 1: By degrees his senses forsook him. But he had a
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  Speaker 1: vague notion that some help was at hand if he
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  Speaker 1: could but attain it, And with this idea floating in
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  Speaker 1: his mind, by a violent effort, he made shift to
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  Speaker 1: fire his peace as a signal of distress, after which
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  Speaker 1: he threw himself on the ground, as if in despair,
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  Speaker 1: to wait for relief by death or assistance from his
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  Speaker 1: fellow creatures. In the meantime, the vessel which Sambo had
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  Speaker 1: seen really approached the island, and having perceived the flag,
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  Speaker 1: they did not hesitate in sending a boat to reconnoiter,
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  Speaker 1: but knowing the island had no good landing place, it
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  Speaker 1: was some time before the seaman reached the spot where
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  Speaker 1: the flag was streaming. Here they found a single individual
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  Speaker 1: lying on the sands in a state of complete exhaustion,
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  Speaker 1: who seemed, from the oppression on his breast, to be dying,
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  Speaker 1: and who uttered no other words than my son, my son,
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  Speaker 1: which the sailors did not understand, being part of a
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  Speaker 1: crew of a Dutch vessel trading between the islands on
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  Speaker 1: the coast of Asia and the Cape of Good Hope,
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  Speaker 1: conceiving him to be in a state of famine the
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  Speaker 1: consequence of shipwreck, their first care was to give him
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  Speaker 1: some kind of spirituous liquor, which his extreme thirst induced
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  Speaker 1: him at first to swallow eagerly, but in another moment
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  Speaker 1: he rejected it. Nevertheless, the effects were instantly injurious and
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  Speaker 1: brought on the highest state of delirium. It did not
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  Speaker 1: appear wonderful to the sailors that the poor strangers should
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  Speaker 1: exhibit symptoms of madness, for they concluded that he had
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  Speaker 1: lost his all, and, seeing he was well dressed and
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  Speaker 1: of a fine athletic form, likely soon to recover and
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  Speaker 1: reward them, they lost not a moment in seizing him
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  Speaker 1: and placing him on their boat, taking his gun along
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  Speaker 1: with them, and securing both that and his pistols less
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  Speaker 1: in the despair which seemed to actuate him, he should
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  Speaker 1: turn them against himself. Just as they were clearing their
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  Speaker 1: way from the sands, poor Sambo arrived and with unutterable
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  Speaker 1: agonies beheld the strangers take away his master alone at
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  Speaker 1: the very time when he was seeking that master to
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  Speaker 1: aid his dying son. After vociferating in the most violent
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  Speaker 1: manner and attracting the attention of the seamen, who yet
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  Speaker 1: did not understand anything besides his distress, he cast off
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  Speaker 1: his cloak and swam out to the boat, which received
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  Speaker 1: him willingly, but either could not or would not understand
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  Speaker 1: his entreaties on the subject of Charles. It was in
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  Speaker 1: vain the poor boy knelt to them or addressed his master,
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  Speaker 1: who now lay in a kind of fit, as if
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  Speaker 1: he were dead already. And when in his distress he
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  Speaker 1: would jumped into the sea to return to dear mister Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: they not only prevented him, but bound him and compelled
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  Speaker 1: him to lie down in the boat, conceiving that, like
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  Speaker 1: his master, his sufferings from shipwreck and famine had touched
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  Speaker 1: his brain and inflicted a temporary loss of reason. On
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  Speaker 1: reaching the ship, both master and servant were received humanly
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  Speaker 1: by the commander, but the storm, threatened by sure signs
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  Speaker 1: for some hours, was now coming on with frightful rapidity,
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  Speaker 1: and he reproved his ment for delay, being anxious to
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  Speaker 1: get out to sea as far as possible, lest they
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  Speaker 1: should be driven on either of the neighboring islands. The
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  Speaker 1: strangers were placed in safety, but no further care could
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  Speaker 1: be given to their case for the present, as the
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  Speaker 1: tempest soon broke on them with the utmost fury, and
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  Speaker 1: the light ship flew before the wind with the velocity
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  Speaker 1: of a bird, far far from the most immediate object
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  Speaker 1: of fear, and far from the sick boy now pining
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  Speaker 1: on the desert island and vainly calling on his father
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  Speaker 1: for that help he wanted so much for himself. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, Sambo, as his sense of despair for Charles'
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  Speaker 1: sad case increased, began to see how necessary it was
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  Speaker 1: to attend to him, whom he considered his only surviving friend.
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  Speaker 1: Poor missus Charlie him die by himselb. He had no fadder,
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  Speaker 1: no servant, and see here my own good Sahib he
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  Speaker 1: die too. He no speak or speak foolish? What will
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  Speaker 1: Sambo do him? Cry as a river dot do no good.
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  Speaker 1: As the only intelligible word mister Crusoe now uttered was
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  Speaker 1: a cry for water. The poor boy's first care was
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  Speaker 1: to procure that for him, and even in the confusion
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  Speaker 1: of the hour, as it was plentiful, he was so
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  Speaker 1: happy as to get it, and from time to time
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  Speaker 1: he held it to the parched lips of the invalid,
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  Speaker 1: who found it the best palliative of his complaint. When
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  Speaker 1: the storm was over, he, like his poor son, experienced
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  Speaker 1: a degree of relief in his breathing, and the acute
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  Speaker 1: pangs in his head subsided. But his delirium was continued
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  Speaker 1: several days, in consequence, most probably of the entire change
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  Speaker 1: of scene in all around him, the unknown language in
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  Speaker 1: which he was addressed, and fluctuating notions of his being
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  Speaker 1: both at sea and upon a desert island which he
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  Speaker 1: had no remembrance of having quitted. The appearance of Sambo
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  Speaker 1: hovering about him he always thought very advantageous to him
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  Speaker 1: at this afflictive period, as he associated the idea of
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  Speaker 1: his son with him, and when in answer to his
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  Speaker 1: inquiries for Charles, the poor boy shook his head and wept.
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  Speaker 1: He conceived that he too was sick and confined to
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  Speaker 1: his bed, and often vehemently insisted on being taken to
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  Speaker 1: his room, that he might wait on his poor child
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  Speaker 1: and give him the medicines he needed. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: the ship had a fine run to the gate, and
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  Speaker 1: on landing there mister Crusoe and even poor Sambo were
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  Speaker 1: soon recognized by friends eager to assist them, and into
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  Speaker 1: their hands. The Dutchmen was glad to put his charge,
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  Speaker 1: whose money and arms he honestly deposited with the governor,
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  Speaker 1: demanding only a proper payment for his trouble, which was
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  Speaker 1: paid doubly with thanks. But the gentleman who transacted the
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  Speaker 1: business heard with great regret that hitherto the sick passenger
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  Speaker 1: had had no medical help. The best medical assistance was
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  Speaker 1: now rendered to poor mister crusoeu which Cape Town afforded,
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  Speaker 1: And when bleeding and medicine had been administered, the remaining
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  Speaker 1: fever was soon subdued, and the mind of the patient
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  Speaker 1: awoke as from sleep, And though reduced to the very
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  Speaker 1: brink of the grave, he might be said in a
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  Speaker 1: short time to be free from disorder. At this time, Sambo,
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  Speaker 1: whose fidelity and anxiety for his master, together with his
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  Speaker 1: lamentations for his son, had attracted much attention, had happily
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  Speaker 1: made of kind of acquaintance with mister Parker, whose sympathy
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  Speaker 1: was so much excited that, having some spare time on
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  Speaker 1: his hands, he gave it up to managing the weakened
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  Speaker 1: frame and anxious heart of this afflicted father. Acting on
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  Speaker 1: the supposition mister Crusoe entertained of Charles's illness, he suffered
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  Speaker 1: him to retain this delusion until he could safely inform
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  Speaker 1: him of the truth as revealed by Sambo, and then,
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  Speaker 1: believing as he did, that the poor boy's misfortune must
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  Speaker 1: er now have terminated by death, he earnestly entreated mister
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  Speaker 1: Crusoe to take a passage on board a ship then
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  Speaker 1: going to England. He hoped that in the bosom of
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  Speaker 1: his beloved family he would find the only solace that
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  Speaker 1: remained for the loss of his son, and he urged
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  Speaker 1: the very hopelessness of the case as a reason for
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  Speaker 1: expediting his removal. Vain, however, was all that could be
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  Speaker 1: urged on this point. From the moment the unhappy father
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  Speaker 1: understood the nature and extent of his misfortune, he determined
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  Speaker 1: not to revisit Europe till he had convinced himself that
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  Speaker 1: his poor forsaken child existed no longer true. However, to
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  Speaker 1: all his duties, and aware that the wreck of the
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  Speaker 1: ship in which he had sailed from India must reach
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  Speaker 1: his wife in a short time and occasion her the
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  Speaker 1: most poignant anguish, he exerted himself to see the passengers
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  Speaker 1: of the ship mister Parker mentioned, and engaged one of them,
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  Speaker 1: the lady, who proved to be an old friend, to
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  Speaker 1: see his his wife on her arrival, and break to
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  Speaker 1: her by degrees the probable loss of her son, together
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  Speaker 1: with an assurance of his own safety and his intention
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  Speaker 1: to come to her as soon as the nature of
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  Speaker 1: his painful duties admitted to this, he added in earnest
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  Speaker 1: assurance that however deep his affliction must be for the
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  Speaker 1: loss of a son, so finally beloved and so singularly bereft,
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  Speaker 1: he would yet, for her sake and that of his
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  Speaker 1: dear surviving child, struggle to attain resignation to this awful dispensation.
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  Speaker 1: He also sent a few lines to the widowed daughter
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  Speaker 1: of Captain Gordon, informing her of her father's death and
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  Speaker 1: of the documents once in his possession, which secured provision
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  Speaker 1: to herself and fatherless children, and enclosed an authority whereby
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  Speaker 1: she might draw on his banker for her present wants,
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  Speaker 1: which he knew to be pressing. Having exerted himself on
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  Speaker 1: this important point, mister Crusoe, though still too weak to
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  Speaker 1: leave his room, began to make every possible inquiry for
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  Speaker 1: the means of returning to the island of Saint Paul.
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  Speaker 1: He found that neither that nor the more important one
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  Speaker 1: of Amsterdam, were now ever touched at, and although he
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  Speaker 1: made most liberal offers for the present, he had no
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  Speaker 1: chance whatever of engaging any vessel to go thither. The
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  Speaker 1: season of the year precluding the power of doing so,
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  Speaker 1: one disappointment on this head succeeding another, and all preying
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  Speaker 1: upon his health, which was still extremely delicate, He at
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  Speaker 1: length gladly acceded to the proposal of mister Parker, who
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  Speaker 1: was going out with a cargo to Ceylon, and being
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  Speaker 1: valuable both as a passenger and a medical man to
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  Speaker 1: the captain with whom he sailed. He promised him on
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  Speaker 1: his return to sail direct for Saint Paul's Island and
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  Speaker 1: give mister crusoe an opportunity of fully examining the island
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  Speaker 1: and paying the rights of Christian burial to his unfortunate son.
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  Speaker 1: The voyage to Ceylon was not attended with those dangers
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  Speaker 1: from which mister Crusoeux had suffered on former occasions, but
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  Speaker 1: it was singularly tedious, and he had unhappily too much
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  Speaker 1: leisure to meditate on his misfortune. Many a time did
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  Speaker 1: he think that if he could find Charles had died
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  Speaker 1: of the fever in the very spot where Sambo had
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  Speaker 1: left him, he could be happy and thankful. But he
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  Speaker 1: could not endure the pain of believing that his poor
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  Speaker 1: boy had wandered about the island, weary and sickly, harassed
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  Speaker 1: with fear, afflicted with sorrow, and perishing with hunger. Above
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  Speaker 1: all other grief was that awakened by the idea that
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  Speaker 1: Charles might think that he had willingly forsaken him. Surely,
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  Speaker 1: he would exclaim in agony, my son does not consider
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  Speaker 1: me capable of this, I trust he rather believes me dead,
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  Speaker 1: watches for my corpse on the beach, and at length dies,
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  Speaker 1: broken hearted for my loss. For even this fate, melancholy
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  Speaker 1: as it is, will be more easy to him than
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  Speaker 1: suspecting me so changed, so wicked as to be capable
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  Speaker 1: of the cruelty of saving my own life at the
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  Speaker 1: expense of my duty and affection to him. Under the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of these melancholy thoughts, the days seem of tenfold
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  Speaker 1: length to the unfortunate voyager, and despite of all the
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  Speaker 1: cares of his kind friend mister Parker, he suffered much
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  Speaker 1: in his health, and all our young readers will be
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  Speaker 1: aware that at this time he was in a more
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  Speaker 1: deplorable state than Charles as to his feelings, though the
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  Speaker 1: actual situation of the poor boy was apparently so much worse.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Croussoe, being on shipboard, could not apply himself to
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  Speaker 1: any employment capable of diverting his thoughts from that one
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  Speaker 1: painful object which engrossed them. And as he neither worked
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  Speaker 1: as a mariner nor commanded as an officer, he had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do but to watch the wind, which, though
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  Speaker 1: not violent, was almost always contrary, so that his spirits
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  Speaker 1: were continually oppressed. And what was still more mortifying was
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  Speaker 1: the certainty that this very wind would take him to
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  Speaker 1: the place where of all others he desired to go.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared as if the hand of Heaven was drawing
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  Speaker 1: him to the desolate island, and the hand of man
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  Speaker 1: thwarting its design. Therefore, no possible state could be more
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  Speaker 1: irritating to the temper or harassing to the heart. During
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  Speaker 1: this period, we may remember that our young exile was
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  Speaker 1: enduring those evils which compelled him to forget the sorrows
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  Speaker 1: of the mind in the wants of the body. Hunger
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  Speaker 1: and cold drove him to exertion. Past suffering induced him
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  Speaker 1: to use contrivances how to escape it for the future,
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  Speaker 1: and the hope of relief at the end of a
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  Speaker 1: given season led him to adopt every possible means of
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  Speaker 1: sustaining life till that time arrived to this may be
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  Speaker 1: added a laudable desire of proving himself a manly and
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  Speaker 1: clever boy by using every resource his situation allowed, and
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  Speaker 1: above all a continual sense of the goodness of God
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  Speaker 1: in his daily preservation, from which he argued that such
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  Speaker 1: mercies might be continued and increased. Once arrived at Ceylon,
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  Speaker 1: mister Crusoe found the captain as active in the disposal
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  Speaker 1: of one cargo and reshipment of another as he could desire.
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  Speaker 1: And as he met here with several persons whom he
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  Speaker 1: had known in India, and found the means of procuring
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  Speaker 1: assistance and aecuniary matters, which was a present convenience, he
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  Speaker 1: experienced relief to his mind and partial renovation to his health. And,
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  Speaker 1: being always active and acute in all matters of business,
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  Speaker 1: he greatly assisted the captain and others in the management
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  Speaker 1: of their concerns, and so expedited their return that the
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  Speaker 1: vessels sailed again under the prevalence of those winds which had,
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  Speaker 1: during the first voyage been the occasion of so much hindrance.
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  Speaker 1: Though mister Crusoe's situation was every way improved, seeing that
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  Speaker 1: every person in the ship was now disposed to assist
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  Speaker 1: his search, and he had changed in their estimation from
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  Speaker 1: a fretful, invalid, always repining and discontented, to that of
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  Speaker 1: a benevolent man of great abilities, in whose anxiety every
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  Speaker 1: person of sensibility must partake. Yet his actual distress was
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  Speaker 1: rather increased than diminished, as he drew nearer the object
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  Speaker 1: to which he had so long looked. In such situations,
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  Speaker 1: some hope will mingle with fear, and by that very
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  Speaker 1: means increased the pain of disappointment, and for this reason,
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  Speaker 1: whenever the anxious father dared to make any promising conjectures
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  Speaker 1: as to the fate of his son, both the Captain
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  Speaker 1: and mister Parker thought of their duty to quench all
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  Speaker 1: hopes of the kind. He would sometimes speak of Peter
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  Speaker 1: the wild boy, who was found in the forests of
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  Speaker 1: Hamelin and Hanover, and appeared to be about thirteen years
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  Speaker 1: old when he was taken, feeding on grass and moss,
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  Speaker 1: and that he thought it was possible human beings might
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  Speaker 1: find nourishment in substances they had never tried before. To this,
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  Speaker 1: mister Parker would reply, yes, sir, an infant left at
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  Speaker 1: two years old might perhaps do so. But your son
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  Speaker 1: was thirteen years old when he was lost. His habits
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  Speaker 1: were those of a gentleman. And notwithstanding you might take
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  Speaker 1: pains to make him active and independent, Eastern manners and
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  Speaker 1: Eastern luxuries must have had considerable effect in enervating his
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  Speaker 1: mind and weakening his body. And you say he was
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  Speaker 1: rather little of his age, and though active strong, how
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  Speaker 1: could a boy of this description live when the fruits
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  Speaker 1: were gone? Besides, he must think both you and Sambo
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  Speaker 1: dead and grief for your loss, in addition to his
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  Speaker 1: own miserable situation, would so prey on his spirits as
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  Speaker 1: to increase the maladies consequent on hunger and bad food,
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  Speaker 1: and rendered impossible for him to struggle long and the
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  Speaker 1: deluging reins to which the islands are subject falling when
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  Speaker 1: the leaves afforded no shelter in the cave of which
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  Speaker 1: you speak had probably fallen in, would add to his
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  Speaker 1: distress and say no more, Say no more, Poor mister Crusoe,
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  Speaker 1: would cry, for I cannot bear the dreadful images you
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  Speaker 1: bring to my mind. Perhaps the storm that drove me
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  Speaker 1: with such rapidity far from him might prove my poor
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  Speaker 1: boy's destruction. And happy should I be if I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was struck by the lightning and dead in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: Rather than that he should know I was taken from him,
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  Speaker 1: and die in languishing misery, Poor mister Charlie. Neither him
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  Speaker 1: die one of dem way, neither him died the utter.
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  Speaker 1: Would Sambo say no him die in him bed? Would
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  Speaker 1: head that ache him, would fever, that parch him same
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  Speaker 1: as him fodder him had no boy to give water
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  Speaker 1: water when that Sambo leave him is all drinky, Nobody
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to hold him up when he will pant pant, So
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: he died quite dead on him mattress, and nobody bury,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: nobody burn. This sad conclusion was usually followed by a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: flood of tears, occasioned in the poor boy, not only
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: by sorrow for the loss of his beloved mister Charlie,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: but the remembrance that his own mother had been burnt
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: with the corpse of his father, after which the Brahmins
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: who had persuaded her to the sacrifice, deserted and defrauded
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: her son, who would have been condemned to the most
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: helpless poverty if he had not been protected by his
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: indulgent master, that master, who now no longer hoped to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: find his own son living, and only became anxious to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: ascertain so far as he was able, manner of his
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: death and give to his remains a grave. When within
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a short distance of their present destination, a breeze sprang
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: up which was directly against them, being the same which
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: had borne poor Charles so far from the island. This
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: occasioned some delay, during which time the father's terrible solicitude
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: increased to very agony, and no food reached his lips.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: No sleep visited his eyes the two days preceding his
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: arrival at the fatal spot. On landing, the first object
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: he beheld was the grave of Captain Gordon, on which
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: he had with his own hands laid the planks, which
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: still remain, and around which were planted trees, which could
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: only have been done by human hands, the hands of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Charles Crousoe. My boy must have survived the fever. He
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: unquestionably planted those trees. It certainly appears so, said mister Parker.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: But as they are nearly all withered, one cannot tell
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: how long they have been done. Some vessel may have
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: touched at the island, as it is well known to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: have plenty of good water. Let us see a little further.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Sambo had, in the meantime ran to the hut, from
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: whence he cried aloud to his young master, for finding
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: no remains of his corpse on the bed, which was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the place in which his imagination had always laid him.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He instantly conceived that he must be alive. His voice
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: at this period did not reach Charles, but soon led
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: mister Parker and the trembling father thither, and the latter
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in the improvement of the place, instantly saw that his
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: son had lived and labored long after he left him,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and he then first fired the piece which had struck
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the ear of Charles, and ordered Sambo to go down
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: towards the spot from whence they had both departed, as
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: being that where, if still living, he was most likely
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to be found, in which comprehended a circle of two
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: thirds of the island. The boy departed, shouting as he went,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: whilst the surgeon, anticipating that a shriek of horror might
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: too soon be exchanged for his presence exultation, tried to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: prepare mister Crusoe for the change he anticipated by begging
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: him to look round the hut and see whether the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: few things now in it were the same as those
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he had left. It was at this time comparatively stripped,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: because all save the bed was removed to the boat,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and a few empty gourds and oil flask and lamp
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: alone remained within view, except the sailor's jacket and trousers,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: which mister crusoex remarked he had never seen before. It
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: appears to me that somebody has really been to the island,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and most probably taken away your son. These things have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: belonged to a common seaman, who has probably exchanged them
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: for something belonging to you or Captain Gordon. No I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: dare not believe the solution of the mystery. If the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: island has been visited, Charles has been robbed and probably murdered.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: At this moment one of the seamen fired, and that loud,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: exulting cry was heard which told them Charles must be found.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: The surgeon ran back to the beach and beheld, to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: his great astonishment Sambo and the strange boy mister Crusoe,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: with trembling limbs, would have run also, but had scarcely
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the power to move, until by a sudden bound he
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: burst through the trees, and in another minute beheld his
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: son on his uttering a cry of joy. He became
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: still more certain of his identity, for the poor boy
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: sank as if struck by the hand of death on
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the ground before him, And such was the agitation which
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: convulsed his own weakened frame, that for some time the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: spectators dreaded to see death ensue. At the very moment
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: when father and son were thus miraculously restored to each other,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the kindness and skill of mister Parker probably saved one
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: or the other from witnessing the end of their hopes
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: on this affecting occasion, and to him they were still
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: further indebted. On returning to the ship, where he found
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it necessary to attend for some time to the health
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of Charles, who, after so long living as it were,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in the open air, could ill bear the confinement of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the vessel, even during the hours of night, and whose
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: food for some time disagreed with him, in consequence of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: its being so different to all that he had lately
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: been able to procure. End of Chapter eleven.