Besides, there are political reasons for rejecting the interested offers of this perfidious stranger.
_Friday._ Political reasons! _Robinson._ Yes.

In the first place he makes these offers only because they are for his advantage.
_Friday._ So much the better, since they are for ours also.
_Robinson._ Then by these exchanges we shall become dependent on him.
_Friday._ And he on us.

We need his game, he our vegetables, and we will live in good friendship.
_Robinson._ Fancy! Do you want I should leave you without an answer?
_Friday._ Let us see; I am still waiting a good reason.
_Robinson._ Supposing that the stranger learns to cultivate a garden, and that his island is more fertile than ours.

Do you see the consequences?
_Friday._ Yes.

Our relations with the stranger will stop.