Crusoe's reason for joining was single, simple, easy to
be expressed, easy to be understood, and commendable.
He
joined--because Dick did.
The very day after the party left the encampment
where Dick had shot the grizzly bear and the deer, he
had the satisfaction of bringing down a splendid specimen
of the big-horned sheep. It came suddenly out
from a gorge of the mountain, and stood upon the giddy
edge of a tremendous precipice, at a distance of about