Robison Crusoe 鲁宾逊漂流记 Chapter 19-RETURN TO ENGLAND

HAVING done all this I left them the next day, and went on board the ship. We prepared immediately to sail, but did not weigh that night. The next morning early, two of the five men came swimming to the ship's side, and making the most lamentable ¹ complaint of the other three, begged to be taken into the ship for God's sake, for they should be murdered, and begged the captain to take them on board, though he hanged them immediately. Upon this the captain pretended to have no power without me; but after some difficulty, and after their solemn promises of amendment ², they were taken on board, and were, some time after, soundly whipped and pickled; after which they proved very honest and quiet fellows., ,Some time after this, the boat was ordered on shore, the tide being up, with the things promised to the men; to which the captain, at my intercession, caused their chests and clothes to be added, which they took, and were very thankful for. I also encouraged them, by telling them that if it lay in my power to send any vessel ³ to take them in, I would not forget them., ,When I took leave of this island, I carried on board, for relics ⁴, the great goat-skin cap I had made, my umbrella, and one of my parrots; also, I forgot not to take the money I formerly ⁵ mentioned, which had lain by me so long useless that it was grown rusty ⁶ or tarnished ⁷, and could hardly pass for silver till it had been a little rubbed and handled, as also the money I found in the wreck ⁸ of the Spanish ship. And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days; being delivered from this second captivity ⁹ the same day of the month that I first made my escape in the long-boat from among the Moors ¹⁰ of Sallee. In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England the 11th of June, in the year 1687, having been thirty-five years absent., , ,I met with one piece of gratitude indeed, which I did not expect; and this was, that the master of the ship, whom I had so happily delivered, and by the same means saved the ship and cargo ¹⁴, having given a very handsome account to the owners of the manner how I had saved the lives of the men and the ship, they invited me to meet them and some other merchants concerned, and all together made me a very handsome compliment upon the subject, and a present of almost 200 pounds sterling ¹⁵., ,But after making several reflections upon the circumstances of my life, and how little way this would go towards settling me in the world, I resolved to go to Lisbon, and see if I might not come at some information of the state of my plantation ¹⁶ in the Brazils, and of what was become of my partner, who, I had reason to suppose, had some years past given me over for dead. With this view I took shipping ¹⁷ for Lisbon, where I arrived in April following, my man Friday accompanying me very honestly in all these ramblings, and proving a most faithful servant upon all occasions. When I came to Lisbon, I found out, by inquiry ¹⁸, and to my particular satisfaction, my old friend, the captain of the ship who first took me up at sea off the shore of Africa. He was now grown old, and had left off going to sea, having put his son, who was far from a young man, into his ship, and who still used the Brazil trade. The old man did not know me, and indeed I hardly knew him. But I soon brought him to my remembrance, and as soon brought myself to his remembrance, when I told him who I was., ,His practice of inebriation was lamentable.他的酗酒常闹得别人束手无策 。,The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决
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