Robison Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记 Chapter 8-SURVEYS HIS POSITION

I MENTIONED before that I had a great mind to see the whole island, and that I had travelled up the brook ¹, and so on to where I built my bower ², and where I had an opening quite to the sea, on the other side of the island. I now resolved to travel quite across to the sea-shore on that side; so, taking my gun, a hatchet ³, and my dog, and a larger quantity of powder and shot than usual, with two biscuit-cakes and a great bunch of raisins ⁴ in my pouch ⁵ for my store, I began my journey. When I had passed the vale where my bower stood, as above, I came within view of the sea to the west, and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried ⁶ land-whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending from the W. to the W.S.W. at a very great distance; by my guess it could not be less than fifteen or twenty leagues off., ,I could not tell what part of the world this might be, otherwise than that I knew it must be part of America, and, as I concluded by all my observations, must be near the Spanish dominions ⁷, and perhaps was all inhabited by savages ⁹, where, if I had landed, I had been in a worse condition than I was now; and therefore I acquiesced ¹⁰ in the dispositions ¹² of Providence ¹³, which I began now to own and to believe ordered everything for the best; I say I quieted my mind with this, and left off afflicting ¹⁴ myself with fruitless wishes of being there., ,Besides, after some thought upon this affair, I considered that if this land was the Spanish coast, I should certainly, one time or other, see some vessel ¹⁵ pass or repass one way or other; but if not, then it was the savage ⁸ coast between the Spanish country and Brazils, where are found the worst of savages; for they are cannibals or men-eaters, and fail not to murder and devour ¹⁶ all the human bodies that fall into their hands., , ,I was exceedingly diverted with this journey. I found in the low grounds hares (as I thought them to be) and foxes; but they differed greatly from all the other kinds I had met with, nor could I satisfy myself to eat them, though I killed several. But I had no need to be venturous, for I had no want of food, and of that which was very good too, especially these three sorts, viz. goats, pigeons, and turtle, or tortoise, which added to my grapes, Leadenhall market could not have furnished a table better than I, in proportion to the company; and though my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities ²¹ for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties., ,I never travelled in this journey above two miles outright ²² in a day, or thereabouts; but I took so many turns and re-turns to see what discoveries I could make, that I came weary enough to the place where I resolved to sit down all night; and then I either reposed ²³ myself in a tree, or surrounded myself with a row of stakes set upright in the ground, either from one tree to another, or so as no wild creature could come at me without waking me., ,The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷 。,They sat under the leafy bower at the end of the garden and watched the sun set.他们坐在花园尽头由叶子搭成的凉棚下观看落日。