After Friday and I became more intimately acquainted, and that he could understand almost all I said to him, and speak pretty fluently, though in broken English, to me, I acquainted him with my own history, or at least so much of it as related to my coming to this place: how I had lived there, and how long; I let him into the mystery, for such it was to him, of gunpowder and bullet, and taught him how to shoot.
Après que Vendredi et moi eûmes fait une plus intime connaissance, lorsqu'il put comprendre presque tout ce que je lui disais et parler couramment, quoiqu'en mauvais anglais, je lui fis le récit de mes aventures ou de celles qui se rattachaient à ma venue dans l'île; comment j'y avais vécu et depuis combien de temps. Je l'initiai au mystère,--car c'en était un pour lui,--de la poudre et des balles, et je lui appris à tirer.