Вокруг света 1994-06, страница 31
Окончание. Начало в № 2, 3, 4, 5/94------------- decided to go with my men to England and to leave them here alone. They were very glad for itr they would better stay here than to return to fatherland and to be hung. Hence, I left it so. Suddenly, the captain began loud to speak against it. Upon it I showed my little anger and told him that they were my prisoners, not his. So I gave them freedom and the whole island. Having done all this, I left them the next day and went on board of the ship. The weather was very good and we began to sail. Before that I had taken my goatskin clothes and one of my parrots, my honest fellow, who was glad to hear me and to speak with me and whom I was always glad to see and to hear. He was one of my younger true friends lived with me twenty-and-eight years, two months and nineteen days on this island, Island of Despair and now, I may say, Island of Joy. Рисунки А. ШТЫХИНА 28 |
