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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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I
was
already
too
well
acquainted
with
the
sentiments
of
this
people,
not
to
know
that
it
would
be
extremely
imprudent
to
suffer
any
expression
to
escape
me
which
should
discover
that
a
desire
of
wealth,
or
of
the
means
of
sensual
gratification,
was
among
the
motives
which
actuate
the
externals;
such
a
disclosure
being
calculated:
only
to
excite
their
aversion,
and
contempt.
The
Best
Man
indulged
me
with
a
long
interview;
and
it
was
a
happy
circumstance
that
I
had
with
me
a
globe,
charts,
maps,
books,
and
drawings,
to
illustrate
and
corroborate
my
statements;
for
otherwise
I
might
have
caused
him
to
suspect
that
I
was
a
most
desperate
liar,
so
strange
and
absurd
did
many
of
my
representations
appear
to
him.
Happily,
Surui
was
already
able
to
read
English
books;
and
when
I
observed
an
appearance
of
doubt
on
the
part
of
the
Best
Man,
I
sought
out
some
passage
in
a
printed
work
to
corroborate
my
statement,
which
Surui
translated
into
the
language
of
the
country.
I
spoke
of
the
danger
I
had
encountered
from
ice.
This
was
incomprehensible
to
him.
He
assured
me
that
water
never
congealed
in
the
internal
world;
that
the
innate
warmth
of
the
earth
was
sufficient
to
prevent
it,
and
he
could
not
understand
how
so
great
a
degree
of
cold
could
exist
in
the
external
world,
so
much
more
exposed
to
the
direct
influence
of
the
fountain
of
light
and
heat.
I
endeavoured
to
account
for
this
by
explaining
to
him
the
generation
of
cold
by
evaporation
and
absorption,
and
promised
to
send
to
the
ship
for
my
air
pump,
to
show
him
ice
artificially
produced
by
absorption
in
an
exhausted
receiver.
I
then
proceeded
to
account
for
the
equable
heat
in
the
internal
world,
and
the
extreme
cold
at
the
icy
hoop,
upon
principles
which
appeared
to
me
to
be
very
obvious.
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