[A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille]@TWC D-Link bookA Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder CHAPTER III 10/23
On reaching the spot, we found the crumbled pumice-stone.
We placed the body in a crevice among the lava rocks, and then I said what I could remember of the burial-service.
After this we carried in our hands the crumbled pumice-stone until we had covered the body, and thus gave the poor fellow a Christian burial. We then returned to the shore. "More, old fellow," said Agnew, "I feel the better for this; the service has done me good." "And me too," said I."It has reminded me of what I had forgotten. This world is only a part of life.
We may lose it and yet live on. There is another world; and if we can only keep that in our minds we sha'n't be so ready to sink into despair--that is, I sha'n't.
Despair is my weakness; you are more hopeful." "Yes," said Agnew, solemnly; "but my hope thus far has referred only to the safety of my skin.
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