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.
Scoperta importante. Poichè Venerdì ed io fummo entrati in maggiore intrinsichezza, ed egli potè intendere quasi tutto ciò ch’io gli dicea, e parlarmi speditamente, ancorché con una sintassi bastarda, gli raccontai in mio linguaggio quella parte della mia vita, che risguardava la mia venuta nell’isola, il tempo che vi dimorai, e ciò che vi feci.