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 One day, after a violent storm, being at that side of the rock he used to visit, as he was looking about, he hears a voice cry out, like that of a man from behind the rock: this set his blood aglowing, and he said to himself, I shall now have a companion; and proceeds to the spot, and saw something which he took to be a chest; with his staff he broke it open, and as he was striking it, a boy underneath called to him in French to turn it up; at this he put the end of his staff, and raised it up about a foot from the ground, and out of the opening immediately out creeps the boy, who falling upon his knees, and holding up his hands, almost drowned in tears, and begging for mercy in such a moving manner, that Quarle could not refrain from shedding tears! and taking him by the hand, he led him to his habitation, where they lived in a state of comparative happiness for the space of ten years: till one morning, the boy having gone out to catch some oysters, he observed a ship at a distance; at which his heart fell a-panting, his pulse doubled its motion, his blood grows warmer and warmer, till at length, inflamed with the desire of getting at it, he lays down the bag he had brought to carry the oysters in, and falls to swimming: the men on board having espied him, sent out their boat which picked him up. Thus he went away without taking leave of him he had received so much good from.

One morning he was awakened by a great noise of squeeling: and his mind being impressed with notions of war, it at first seized him with terror: but being somewhat settled, and the noise still continuing, he perceived it proceeded from the two different kinds of monkeys in the island, whchwhich [sic] were fighting for the wild pomegranates