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nized me, when the tables were turned, and 

 I received from both host and hostess a 

 generous hospitality. From them I learned 

 that the family were in London; and that 

 my elder brother had left school, but was 

 then in the town. He, on hearing from 

 them of my sudden appearance, came and 

 took me to my father's house. 



And here, gentle reader, terminated my 

 career on the ocean, whether for good or for 

 ill it is not for me to say, but to bow, as 

 I did then, to the decrees of Providence, 

 and to agree with the philosophic bard, 

 that "Whatever is, is right." With it ended 

 the first stage or epoch of my life. 



I returned to the bosom of my family, it 

 is true, unsullied by the deceits, untainted 

 by the follies, and unacquainted with the 

 artifices of the world uncontaminated, 

 too, by those vices to which a sailer's 

 life is inevitably exposed ; but upon a 

 careful retrospect I think I can descry the 

 germ of those feelings and motives of action 



