ABSTRACT
The next morning proved ne, and Ned (resolved not to be again compelled to an unnecessary indolence) rose at an early hour, and prevailed upon William to conduct him to the cottages where Morgan and the boatswain were lodged. He found the poor fellows still very sore from their bruises, but in a fair way to get better; and Morgan in particular, deeply impressed with a grateful sense of the mercy of his deliverance, and hardly less thankful for that of his master than his own. He returned by the coast side, and, as he viewed the rock on which he had been thrown, admired by what miraculous providence he had been enabled to retain his station on it. A tender recollection of the Fanshaws, with whom he had lately been so/ happy, and over whose cold and scattered remains the ocean he was now contemplating rolled its billows, drew from his breast a sympathetic sigh, not unaccompanied with a friendly tear, the last and only tribute he could pay to their memory. e living now claimed his attention; and therefore he bent his way back to Mrs. Waldron’s whom he found waiting for him to breakfast, and under some uneasiness that he had ventured so soon abroad. e good lady, however, soon banished her apprehensions, when she beheld the demolition he caused in her hot loaf and butter, the ruddy colour of his cheek, and the animated lustre of his eye. Indeed, the activity of his Indian life had strung all his nerves with vigour, and given to every muscle its most perfect contour; so that no statuary, even of antiquity, ever produced a more nished model of male beauty, nor any painter a richer glow of apparent health. His dress indeed was/ nothing but the jacket and trowsers which he had on when he le the ship, for to this his whole wardrobe was reduced; but his person did not stand in need of ornaments to set it o , and never looked more engaging than in the simplest attire.
