Reread the excerpt from Treasure Island.
He was clothed with tatters of old ship’s canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin. About his waist he wore an old brass-buckled leather belt, which was the one thing solid in his whole accoutrement.
Which sentence from the passage below provides additional support for the inference you made in the previous question?
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“His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.”
“His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.”
“‘Marooned three years ago,’ he continued, ‘and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.’”
“‘Marooned three years ago,’ he continued, ‘and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.’”
“‘Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.’”
“‘Well, many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.’”
“All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature.”
“His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite startling in so dark a face.”
This sentence provides additional support for the inference that the character has been marooned on an island for a long time, as it describes the effects of prolonged exposure to the sun on his skin. The sunburn, darkened lips, and fair eyes all suggest that he has been living outdoors for an extended period.
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“‘Marooned three years ago,’ he continued, ‘and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.’”
This sentence provides additional support for the inference that the character has been marooned on an island for a long time. He mentions being marooned three years ago and surviving on goats, berries, and oysters since then, indicating a prolonged period of isolation on the island.