When he ceased to speak, holding out his hand to him, he said: 'My boy, the lesson is a rude one, but let it be profitable to you; let it teach you that _ennui_ on board a vessel, even with a Stradling, is better than _ennui_ in a desert.

Undoubtedly there are among us troublesome, wicked people, but fewer wicked than crack-brained.

Believe, then, in friendship, especially in mine; from this day it is yours, on the faith of William Dampier.' And he opened his arms to the young man, who threw himself into them.
On their return to the vessel, Dampier presented to Selkirk his own Bible.

The latter seized it with avidity, and, after having turned over its leaves as if to find a text which presented itself to his mind, read aloud the following passage: 'He was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven.'-- DANIEL v.

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