Crusoe's island . ever, after this candid avowal, you still insist upon hav-ing a distinct and emphatic declaration in regard to anydoubtful point, all I can say is, that, like the man who. CKUSOES ISLAND. 149 made a statement concerning the height of a certainhorse, I am ready at all hazards to stick to whatever Isaid. If I spoke of a mountain as three thousand mileshigh instead of three thousand feet, why, in the name ofpeace, let it be three thousand miles; if I killed any sav-. ages, I am sorry for it, but they must remain dead—it isimpossible to bring them to life now; if I put some ofmy
Crusoe's island . ever, after this candid avowal, you still insist upon hav-ing a distinct and emphatic declaration in regard to anydoubtful point, all I can say is, that, like the man who. CKUSOES ISLAND. 149 made a statement concerning the height of a certainhorse, I am ready at all hazards to stick to whatever Isaid. If I spoke of a mountain as three thousand mileshigh instead of three thousand feet, why, in the name ofpeace, let it be three thousand miles; if I killed any sav-. ages, I am sorry for it, but they must remain dead—it isimpossible to bring them to life now; if I put some ofmy own ideas into the heads of others, it must have beenbecause I thought them better adapted to the subjectthan what those heads contained already, and I holdmyself responsible for them; if at any time I imaginedmyself to be the original and genuine Crusoe, with aman in my service called Friday, I still adhere to it thatno Crusoe more certain than he was himself ever existedupon that island ; if, in short, there is any one point uponwhich I have hazarded the reputation of a veraciouschronicler of actual events, or a faithful delineator ofstrange scenes in nature, I hereby declare that I shallmost cheerfully return to Juan Fernandez in an open boatwith any ten readers who desire to test the matter by oc-ular demonstration, and thus convince the most skeptic-al that I have not made a single unfounded now, in the hope that we may meet again, I wish 150 CRUSOES IS
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