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Updated: May 22, 2025
"He will do that, or anything else, which is for his own profit." "Profit? All the world seems determined to make profit out of me. I presume you would, if I had come with you to Bourne." "I do not doubt it. This is a very wild sea to swim in; and a man must be forgiven, if he catches at every bit of drift-timber."
From two or three little matters which I have heard about this gentleman, I am satisfied that he is a bad successor to the good Antoine. A propos of poor Antoine, it was reported that his body had been washed up among some drift-timber below the plantation; but the report proved incorrect. A body was found, but not that of the steward. Some other unfortunate, who had met with a similar fate.
"In which," says the chronicler, "we caught many strange fishes, and beside them, a sea-cow full seven feet long, with limpets and barnacles on her back, as if she had been a stick of drift-timber. This is a fond and foolish beast: and yet pious withal; for finding a corpse, she watches over it day and night until it decay or be buried.
Thus we were to proceed with a portable punt, ready for the passage of any river or water which might be in our way. January 25. This day we laid down the keel and principal timbers of a boat to be strongly planked, so as to be proof against the common drift-timber in the river. At night some stars appeared, whereby I ascertained the latitude of this camp to be 29 degrees 2 minutes south.
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