At First I Threw My Weight Upon My Heels, As One Does Naturally In A Boot, And Was A Good Deal Bruised, But After A Few Hours I Learned The Natural Walk Of Man, And Could Follow My Guide In Any Portion Of The Island.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

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