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ship or die. He thought it best not to let me die so forlornly on a foreign shore, and so, as the cabin was crowded with ladies and children, he placed the little responsibilities in my charge, and in this way I earned my passage back to my native land. I made a great many friends on shipboard, and felt very sorry to leave them; it had to be done though, and soon we all parted, probably never to meet again.
