Now what will the reader think, when he is informed that the purser, after all this knowledge of the captain's cruelty, sent him out again, and that he was the same person who was purser of the Brothers, and who had also sent out the captain of that ship a second time, as has been related, notwithstanding his barbarities in former voyages!] This advice, though it was judicious, and founded on a knowledge of law proceedings, I found it very difficult to adopt.

My own disposition was naturally such, that whatever I engaged in I followed with more than ordinary warmth.

I could not be supposed, therefore, affected and interested as I then was, to be cool and tranquil on this occasion.

And yet what would my worthy friend have said, if in this first instance I had opposed him?
I had a very severe struggle in my own feelings on this account.

At length, though reluctantly, I obeyed; but as the passions which agitate the human mind, when it is greatly inflamed, must have a vent somewhere, or must work off, as it were, or in working together must produce some new passion or effect, so I found the rage which had been kindling within me subsiding into the most determined resolutions of future increased activity and perseverance.