Water won't hurt my cabin, and if it did you're welcome just the same.

I suppose you represent the people of the island, to whom my crew and I owe so much." "I am the people of the island." "You mean that you're here alone ?" "Exactly that.

But tell me, before we go any further, Captain, what month this is." "May." "And the year ?" "1759." "I wanted to be sure.

I see that I've been on the island eight or nine months, but I lost all count of time, and, now and then it seemed like eight or nine years.

As I've already told Lieutenant Lanham, I'm Robert Lennox, of Albany, the Province of New York, and the wilderness.