雪莲花的寓意和象征

《 雪莲花的寓意和象征》

　　"All this night I had no sleep; but the hunger was now turned intoa disease; and I had a terrible colic and griping, by wind insteadof food having found its way into the bowels; and in this conditionI lay till morning, when I was surprised by the cries andlamentations of my young master, who called out to me that hismother was dead. I lifted myself up a little, for I had notstrength to rise, but found she was not dead, though she was ableto give very little signs of life. I had then such convulsions inmy stomach, for want of some sustenance, as I cannot describe; withsuch frequent throes and pangs of appetite as nothing but thetortures of death can imitate; and in this condition I was when Iheard the seamen above cry out, 'A sail! a sail!' and halloo andjump about as if they were distracted. I was not able to get offfrom the bed, and my mistress much less; and my young master was sosick that I thought he had been expiring; so we could not open thecabin door, or get any account what it was that occasioned

　　When we had travelled one day's journey, the guides, who were fivein number, called all the passengers, except the servants, to agreat council, as they called it. At this council every onedeposited a certain quantity of money to a common stock, for thenecessary expense of buying forage on the way, where it was nototherwise to be had, and for satisfying the guides, getting horses,and the like. Here, too, they constituted the journey, as theycall it, viz. they named captains and officers to draw us all up,and give the word of command, in case of an attack, and give everyone their turn of command; nor was this forming us into order anymore than what we afterwards found needful on the way.

　　CHAPTER XI - WARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN