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IN A LITTLE TIME, HOWEVER, NO MORE CANOES APPEARING, THE FEAR OF THEIR COMING WORE OFF; AND I BEGAN TO TAKE MY FORMER THOUGHTS OF A VOYAGE TO THE MAIN INTO CONSIDERATION; BEING LIKEWISE ASSURED BY FRIDAY’S FATHER THAT I MIGHT DEPEND UPON GOOD USAGE FROM THEIR NATION, ON HIS ACCOUNT, IF I WOULD GO. IT WAS NOT TILL ALMOST A YEAR AFTER THIS THAT I BROKE LOOSE, THOUGH, IN THE MEANTIME, I CONTINUED OBSTINATELY DEAF TO ALL PROPOSALS OF SETTLING TO BUSINESS, AND FREQUENTLY EXPOSTULATED WITH MY FATHER AND MOTHER ABOUT THEIR BEING SO POSITIVELY DETERMINED AGAINST WHAT THEY KNEW MY INCLINATIONS PROMPTED ME TO. ALL THE GOOD COUNSELS OF MY PARENTS, MY FATHER’S TEARS AND MY MOTHER’S ENTREATIES, CAME NOW FRESH INTO MY MIND; AND MY CONSCIENCE, WHICH WAS NOT YET COME TO THE PITCH OF HARDNESS TO WHICH IT HAS SINCE, REPROACHED ME WITH THE CONTEMPT OF ADVICE, AND THE BREACH OF MY DUTY TO GOD AND MY FATHER. HAD I NOW HAD THE SENSE TO HAVE GONE BACK TO HULL, AND HAVE GONE HOME, I HAD BEEN HAPPY, AND MY FATHER, AS IN OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR’S PARABLE, HAD EVEN KILLED THE FATTED CALF FOR ME; FOR HEARING THE SHIP I WENT AWAY IN WAS CAST AWAY IN YARMOUTH ROADS, IT WAS A GREAT WHILE BEFORE HE HAD ANY ASSURANCES THAT I WAS NOT DROWNED.