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until. His master sent him to mind a Vessel that was lying in the harbour. Well do I remember the conversation I had with him on that trying occasion & how much I fell for him as a little outcast in a strange & distant land. He had no relations no kind father no tender Mother - No Brothers or Sister to sooth his sorrow. his friends for he had some could not offer him a [employment?] because he was an apprentice - On board the Vessel however he found more leisure for reading & writing which he had just begun the only thing he now regretted in the change was his being prevented from attending the house of God as usual.
His troubles did not however cease with his change of situation So true is it that man is [indecipherable] I one day found him weeping bitterly on the wharf