Robinson Crusoe
bear getting up to the top of a little mountain and looking
out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship; then fancy at a vast dis-
tance I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and
then after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it
quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase
my misery by my folly.
But having gotten over these things in some measure,
and having settled my household staff and habitation, made
me a table and a chair, and all as handsome about me as I
could, I began to keep my journal; of which I shall here give
you the copy (though in it will be told all these particulars
over again) as long as it lasted; for having no more ink, I was
forced to leave it off.