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He stated that he was a native of Largo, in Fifeshire, that his name was Alexander Selkirk, and that he had belonged to a ship called the Cinque Ports, commanded by one Stradling, who, upon some difference, set him on shore here, leaving him a firelock with some powder and ball, a knife, a hatchet, a kettle, some mathematical instruments, a Bible, and two or three other useful books, with a small quantity of tobacco, a bed, bedding, etcetera.
Having had a dispute with Captain Stradling, and considering from the leaky state of the Cinque Ports that she might never reach England, he had desired to be put on shore at this island of Juan Fernandez, with which he was well acquainted, having been there before to obtain wood and water.
From any one else, the proud Catherine would not have suffered such a liberty; to this, she replied only by a graceful reverence, and, while the hero and paymaster of the fête shook a rouleau of gold upon her counter, she said, hastily bending towards Stradling: 'To-morrow! accompanying this word with an expressive look and her most gracious smile.
Trottman and Stradling were accustomed to each other's manner; and, notwithstanding the language they used, nothing more was meant than a kind of jocular sparring: which would now and then forget itself for a moment, and become waspish; but would recollect and recover its temper the next sentence.
Brief Account of Stradling, Clipperton, and Dampier, after their respective Separations, till their Returns to England. The reader may remember that Captain Dampier, in the St George, left Captain Stradling in the Cinque-ports on the 19th of May, 1704, at King's Island, in the Bay of Panama.
News of Stradling. Confidences. End of the History of the real Robinson Crusoe. Nebuchadnezzar.
The night before, at sight of these articles, he had supposed a sentiment of justice and humanity to exist in the soul of the corsair. Just now, he had said to himself that Stradling, deceived by a false reckoning of latitude, had landed him on an island, perhaps believing it to be a projecting shore of the continent.
'My friend Trevor mistakes the nature of the profession he is studying, added Trottman. 'He forgets that the question before a Court is not, what is this, that, or the other; which he may think proper to call justice; but, what is the law? 'To be sure, sir; continued Stradling. 'It is that which, as a lawyer, you must attend to; and that only. 'I will cite you an example, said Trottman.
Unfortunately William Dampier does not accompany us; but he furnishes funds to the brave Captain Stradling. 'Stradling! 'Yes, it is he who has just engaged me, and with whom I am to sail. Our agreement is signed, I am mate! I am going to explore the New World! Ah! I would not exchange my fate for that of a king. But time presses; adieu, Kitty, till I see you again!
This time, the captain looked at him askance, and shrugged his shoulders without replying. The storm was beginning to growl in the distance. It was not without a secret object that, in his course through the Southern Sea, Stradling had first of all aimed at California.
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