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when they were pushed for provisions. 

 What led to the remark was one I had on 

 board, which was very fat and vicious and 

 I offered it to him, when he replied, "If I 

 take him, we shall eat him." He took him. 

 What was his fate I know not. We had a 

 hard and tedious passage, constant gales, 

 and ship leaking bad, so we made one hun- 

 dred and two days from Petersburg and 

 was as short as any who sailed at the same 

 time. 1 



I was at home two months when I was 

 ordered to Savannah, where I loaded with 

 rice and cotton for Copenhagen and Rus- 

 sia. I made an excellent voyage, having 

 sold the rice at eleven cents, the cotton at 

 thirty-seven and a half cents per pound 

 and a fair voyage on my return cargo. On 

 the voyage, while in Russia, I had an op- 

 portunity of seeing Alexander the Emperor 

 on several occasions. A Russian vessel 

 returned to Cronstadt from a voyage of 



1 " Ship ' Wells/ Lamson, arrived, ninety-five days from 

 St. Petersburg." Salem Gazette, Nov. 20, 1806. 



