Nay, I was coming into the very middle station, or upper degree of low life, which my father advised me to before, and which, if I resolved to go on with, I might as well have stayed at home, and never have fatigued myself in the world as I had done; and I used often to say to myself, I could have done this as well in England, among my friends, as have gone five thousand miles off to do it among strangers and savages, in a wilderness, and at such a distance as never to hear from any part of the world that had the least knowledge of me.
Ha most ezzel megbékülök, akár otthon is maradhattam volna, ahelyett, hogy a nagyvilágban gyötröm magam. Gyakran elismételtem magamnak, hogy ezt az életmódot Angliában is folytathatnám, a barátaim társaságában, ahelyett, hogy onnan nyolcezer kilométerre, idegenek és bennszülöttek között teszem, a dzsungel közepén, ahová a számomra ismerős világból nem jut el semmi hír.