Перевести i was not happy in my new life. this was the middle state of which my father had spoken. i often said to myself, that i could have done this at home, instead of coming about five thousand miles to do it among strangers and savages. i had nobody to converse with, but now and then this neighbour; no work to be done, but by the labour of my hands; and i used to say, i lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island,[99] that had nobody there but himself. i thought i was like a man stranded alone upon an island. never compare your situation to a worse one! god may place you in the worse situation, so that you long for your old life! i say, god just to leave me on an island, where i really was alone! if i had been content to stay as i was, i would have been rich and happy. by living me on an island, god made me understand this.