fulness to guard against misfortune. For my own part,
I do not believe in luck. I have never yet met with an instance of a
lucky or an unlucky man in which I could not trace the effect to the
cause.

We were lucky, because Captain Carr was a judicious, persevering,
sensible man; and thus, in our first year's fishing, we got more than a
third full. At the end of that time we found ourselves brought up once
more off Batavia.

The captain, in the kindest way, invited Newman at once to accompany him
on shore. "Bring your drawings with you for Mynheer Von Kniper," said
he. "I doubt not that he will be glad to see them."

On receiving the invitation, Newman dived below. When he returned on
deck his appearance was completely changed. Instead of the rough
seaman, he appeared as a well-dressed gentleman, and certainly more
refined in appearance than either the captain or any of the officers.
Captain Carr looked at him with an eye of satisfaction; and it was very
pleasant to observe how perfectly free he was from any petty feeling of
jealousy at seeing himself eclipsed by one of his own men. As the boat
shoved off from the ship's side I thought to myself--"Depend on it,
there is something in store for Newman; he will not come back in the
cynical spirit in which he seemed to be after his first visit."

I had made excellent use of all my spare time during our passage out,
and had added considerably to my stock of knowledge. Newman's books
were all admirably selected, and were of excellent service to me. The
more I read, the more I wished to read--to gain information on points on
which I found myself ignorant. Happily one of the crew, a fine, steady
young man, had a Bible with him; and he having offered it to me, for the
first time in my life I began to read its sacred pages. As I read on I
was forcibly struck with its simplicity and beauty, its fulness and
minuteness, and yet the immense amount of matter it contained. I began
to compare one part with another--the prophecies with their fulfilment--
one point of the history with the rest--the great variety of subjects
and style, and yet the beautiful adaptation of the various parts with
the whole; nor did I neglect to compare sacred with profane history, or
to remark how one corroborates the other--just as modern science, the
greater advances it makes, is found to confirm more and more the troth
of the accounts given by the sacred writers. Still all this time my
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