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plays an open and shut game. If the vessel gets home 

 the sailor pays the insurance, but if she is lost the 

 owner pays the insurance and pockets the profits. 



"The following is the result of one seaman's voyage 

 for four years : 



Sailor's share reduced to money $262.25 



Less fitting, shipping, and medicine chests . 10.00 



Ten per cent discount on $265.25 .... 26.22 



Three per cent insurance on $262.25 . . . 7.86 



Money originally advanced 70.00 



Interest on same 16.80 



Cash advanced during voyage 30.00 



Interest on same one per cent a month . . . 7.20 

 Clothing which he was compelled to draw 



owing to his bad outfit 40.00 



To be deducted from sailor's share .... $208.03 

 Amount to be received at the end of the voyage $54.17 



" From 3000 to 4000 young men yearly sail from the 

 United States and, becoming disgusted, desert, and 

 either from shame or moral corruption never return. 

 The cause is small pay and bad treatment." 



Francis Wayland, the eminent educator and 

 author, in a lecture delivered before the New 

 Bedford Port Society, on November 20, 1842, a 

 lecture which was preserved in pamphlet form, 



