My comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the master’s son, was now less forward than I. The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melancholy, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voyage only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone “Young man,” says he, “you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.”
Mon camarade, qui d'abord avait aidé à mon endurcissement, et qui était le fils du capitaine, se trouvait alors plus découragé que moi. La première fois qu'il me parla à Yarmouth, ce qui ne fut pas avant le second ou le troisième jour, car nous étions logés en divers quartiers de la ville; la première fois, dis-je, qu'il s'informa de moi, son ton me parut altéré: il me demanda d'un air mélancolique, en secouant la tête, comment je me portais, et dit à son père qui j'étais, et que j'avais fait ce voyage seulement pour essai, dans le dessein d'en entreprendre d'autres plus lointains.