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aconstituent part of their own language. Besides the dangers & privations & hardships by sea they are but little better in harbour. Introduced by their companions into the worst scenes of wickedness and debauchery - labouring all the day & lying about half the night on boats for the masters & officers & then [indecipherable] treats. I tremble for the child who chooses a sailors life if he can by any means obtain another unless he be fortunate enough to sail with a man who fears God. Hence it not surprising whhen I heard of his Jas Mullins death I [indecipherable] "he was taken from the evil to come"
* The same thoughtless barbarity that kicks & beats these boys would not stop to make them "walk the plank" that is to jump overboard did not the law of our land as contrived by watch men and protect human life"