I was only alive to the condensed confidentialcomfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanketwith a real friend. With our shaggy jackets drawnabout our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawkfrom one to the other, till slowly there grew over us ablue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by theflame of the new-lit lamp.

　　我的兴趣完全集中在跟一个知心朋友共吸一支烟斗。共盖一条毯子的这种精诚的舒适上了。我们肩上披着两件毛茸茸的外套,就这么彼此互递着那支烟斗斧,直吸得我的头顶慢慢结挂起一个青烟的天盖,被刚点燃的灯光照耀着。

　　Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage away to far distant scenes, I knownot, but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to goon and tell it. He gladly complied. Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of hiswords, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his brokenphraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mereskeleton I give.

　　究竟是不是这个起伏缭绕的天盖把这个野人直腾驾到那老远的地方,我可不知道,总之,他谈起他的故乡来了;我由于急想听听他的来历,就要求他说下去,说给我听。他欣然同意了.虽然一时间我还懂不了他多少话,然而,从陆续说出来的话里,我已比较能熟悉他那乱七八糟的语法,使我现在能够把整个故事轮廓如实地勾勒出来。