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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
132
Unhappily,
in
my
eagerness
to
carry
my
point,
I
assured
him
that
this
would
be
no
objection
to
the
externals;
that
in
the
pursuit
of
gain,
they
defied
plague,
pestilence,
and
famine;
that
the
rich
merchants
who
sent
out
adventurers,
never
took
the
climate
of
a
country
into
consideration,
viewing
it
as
of
no
concern
to
them
how
many
of
the
lives
of
shipmasters
and
mariners
might
be
sacrificed,
nor
how
many
widows
and
orphans
were
thus
created,
provided
they
could
make
money
by
their
business;
that
the
externals
would
come
to
Token
Island
so
long
as
there
was
any
thing
to
be
gained
by
it,
even
if
one
half
of
their
number
should
perish
annually;
and
that
the
Symzonians
could
visit
them
in
the
temperate
season,
when
they
would
be
quite
safe.
The
Best
Man
heard
me
out,
and
then
told
me
I
had
said
enough.
It
would
be
much
less
dangerous
to
his
people,
he
believed,
to
visit
Token
Island
in
the
hottest
season,
than
to
hold
intercourse
with
such
a
depraved,
covetous,
and
sordid
people
at
any
time
of
the
year.
The
plan
was
inadmissible--I
must
prepare
for
my
departure--The
decree
would
be
rigidly
enforced.
I
expressed
my
reluctant
acquiescence,
and
begged
to
be
fully
informed
of
his
will
and
pleasure,
that
I
might
not
in
any
respect
deviate
from
the
course
I
was
desired
to
pursue.
I
closed
by
expressing
a
hope,
that
the
numerous
manuscripts
which
the
Wise
and
the
Good
had
bestowed
upon
me,
might
not
be
taken
away,
but
that
I
might
be
permitted
to
carry
them
to
my
country,
to
instruct
the
externals
in
the
wisdom
they
contained.
After
a
moment's
hesitation
he
replied,
that
good
books
could
not
do
harm
in
any
world,
and
I
might
retain
them.
This
was
joyful
to
my
ears.
I
felt
sure
of
instructive
and
profitable
employment
for
life
in
translating
these
productions
for
the
benefit
of
my
fellow
externals,
and
took
my
leave
of
the
Best
Man,
with
the
comfortable
reflection
that
I
had
not
discovered
a
new
world
wholly
in
vain.
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