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constant demand for the growth of all other countries, that there
is a certain vent for the returns, as well as a market abroad, for
the goods carried out.

In short, we made a very good voyage, and I got so much
money by the first adventure, and such an insight into the method
of getting more, that had I been twenty years younger, I should
have been tempted to have stayed here, and sought no further for
making my fortune. But what was all this to a man on the wrong
side of threescore, that was rich enough, and came abroad more in
obedience to a restless desire of seeing the world, than a covetous
desire of getting in it; and indeed I think it is with great justice
that I now call it a restless desire, for it was so. When I was at
home, T was restless to go abroad; and now I was abroad, T was
restless to be at home. Tsay, what gain was this tome? I was
rich enough, nor had I any uneasy desires about getting more
money, and therefore the profits of the voyage to me were thing
of no great force for the prompting me forward to further under
takings; and I thought that by this voyage I had made no pro-
gress at all, because I was come back, as I might call it, to the
place from whence I came, as to a home; whereas my eye, which,
like that which Solomon speaks of, was never satisfied with seeing,

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was still more desirous of wandering and seeing. I was come into
a part of the world which I was never in before, and that part in
particular which T had heard much of, and was resolved to see as
much of as I could, and then I thought I might say I had seen all
the world that was worth seeing.

But my fellow-traveller and I had different notions. I do not
name this to insist upon my own; for I acknowledge his were the
most just, and the most suited to the end of a merchant’s life, who,
when he is abroad upon adventures, it is his wisdom to stick to
that as the best thing for him which he is like to get the most
money by. My new friend kept himself to the nature of the thing,
and would have been content to have gone like a carrier’s horse
always to the same inn, backward and forward, provided he could,
as he called it, find his account init. On the other hand, mine
was the notion of a mad rambling boy, that never cares to sce a
thing twice over.