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Sir Edward Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck
Sir Edward Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck Author:Jane Porter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: calculations), the people were told the schooner should bring from Kingston, free of charge for the freight, whatever they chose to send money to purchase. This ... more »announcement created a great stir among them; and poor Drake soon found enough to do to make their respective memorandums, and receive their monies. The following day being the Sabbath', we dedicated' it, as heretofore, to the more especial observance of moral and religious duties; permitting every one to indulge themselves in innocent amusement after duly performing the duties of the day. ' '' ' . ' " CHAP. III. Monday, June 23d.—The men began shipping the turtle at break of day; and soon ailcr, Captain Drake waited on me for orders. I gave him letters to Mr. Green, at Kingston ; and letters for Messrs. Perry and'Co., and for my uncle; and also letters from my dear wife and myself, to our friends in Gloucestershire.—" Put those in your pocket," said I; " and let us look over (he list I have made out for supplies required from Kingston." We conned it over ; and after making a feto additions, he put this paper in hrs pocket also; The list embraced all sorts of lumber; that is, squared timber for building, planks, boards, shingles,« less