human
Thanks to you and--the dog, I am very well, Martin! said he, 'twixt chattering teeth.
gpt
But what of the boat; she should come ashore. Looking about, sure enough I espied our poor craft, rolling and tossing helplessly in the shallows hard by, and running thither, was seized of sudden despair, for I saw her bilged and shattered beyond repair. Now as she rolled thus, the sport of each incoming wave, I beheld something bright caught up in her tangled gear, whereupon I contrived to scramble aboard and so found this to be Don Federigo's rapier, the which was some small mitigation of my gloom and put me to great hopes that I might find more useful things, as compass or sextant, and so found a small barrico of water firm-wedged beneath a thwart; but save for this the boat was swept bare. So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him.
human
Truly we are in evil case, Martin! quoth he, when I had told him the result of my search.
gpt
Aye, we are in woful plight! And this land of Darien is very mountainous and ill-travelling as I remember.
human
Yet needs must we adventure it,
gpt
You must, Martin; but as for me, I bide here.
human
Here? said I, glancing around on the barren, unlovely spot.
gpt
Sir, you talk wildly, I think; to stay here is to die.
human
Aye, Martin, so soon as God shall permit.
gpt
Surely our case is not so hopeless you despair thus soon?
human
Sit down, here beside me, said he, smiling up at me.
gpt
Come and let us reason the matter, since 'tis reason lifteth man above the brutes.