Striking a light with a cap and some powder, we lit the pile.

It blazed and the wind blew the heat strong upon the oysters, which accordingly began to squeak and hiss, until one by one they gave up the ghost, and, opening their shells, exposed their delightfully roasted bodies, which were eaten forthwith.
How very absurd and uninteresting this is! but nevertheless it is one of those trifling incidents which sharpen the imagination when you depend upon your own resources.
It is astonishing how perfectly helpless some people are if taken from the artificial existence of every-day life and thrown entirely upon themselves.

One man would be in superlative misery while another would enjoy the responsibility, and delight in the fertility of his own invention in accommodating himself to circumstances.

A person can scarcely credit the unfortunate number of articles necessary for his daily and nightly comfort, until he is deprived of them.

To realize this, lose yourself, good reader, wander off a great distance from everywhere, and be benighted in a wild country, with nothing but your rifle and hunting-knife.