That evil influence which carryed me first away from my father s house , that hurried me into the wild and indigested notion of raising my fortune ; and that imprest those conceits so forcibly upon me , as to make me deaf to all good advice , and to the entreaties and even command of my father : i say the same influence , whatever it was , presented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view ; and i went on board a vessel bound to the coast of africa ; or , as our sailors vulgarly call it , a voyage to guinea 這種念頭,根深蒂固,竟使我對一切忠告充耳不聞,對父親的懇求和嚴命置若罔聞。我是說,現(xiàn)在,又正是這同一種邪惡的力量-不管這是一種什么力量,使我開始了一種最不幸的冒險事業(yè)。我踏上了一艘駛往非洲海岸的船用水手們的俗話說,到幾內(nèi)亞去!