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might sell both cargo and vessel l and send 

 his crew home by another ship. Yet with 

 all this love for a bargain he was generous 

 in his nature and prodigal in his personal 

 expenditure, and in many a case when hur- 

 rying to some port where to arrive first was 

 to take the cream of the profit, he would 

 lay by some stranger in distress and sacri- 

 fice personal gain to assist his brother sailor. 

 That he was personally brave goes without 

 saying, for he had not only to keep his crew 



1 In 1802 the ship " Juno," 250 tons, DeWolfe master, 

 made a voyage to the northwest coast after furs. Soon 

 after her arrival she fell in with a Russian vessel having 

 on board a Russian nobleman who had been appointed 

 Ambassador from that country to Japan. The newly 

 appointed Ambassador expressed his intention to build 

 a vessel on the coast to take him to his destination. Cap- 

 tain DeWolfe promptly offered to sell his ship, and they 

 traded for $68,000. Part of the crew were sent on to 

 Canton in a vessel of forty tons which Captain DeWolfe 

 bought from the Russians, and part remained on the 

 coast until other means of returning were found. Cap- 

 tain DeWolfe reached home in two years and six months 

 from the time of sailing, having made $100,000 net profit 

 on the voyage. MONROE, History of Bristol, p. 275. 



