104 GOOD FORTUNE. 



our destinies henceforth, would lay wide 

 apart that my malady, which had been 

 gaining ground, would ever prevent me 

 following in the track of so distin- 

 guished a leader, and that I must 

 solace myself with reflecting on my 

 good fortune in having been thrown in 

 the path of so eminent a man. 



With the scene of that farewell 

 deeply impressed on my heart, I fell 

 asleep, as night came on, on the deck 

 of the pilot-boat and, reader, it has 

 never been effaced. It was many months 

 I may say two years or more before 

 I again fell in with my friend, and 

 repaid him what he called the trifling 

 obligation he had laid me under, when 

 he took occasion to express his extreme 

 sorrow at my having left the ser- 

 vice. 



He continued his brilliant career in 

 the Navy till long after the revolu- 

 tionary war, stimulating by his example 



