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If you are not man enough to keep clear of rum entirely — 

 entirely, mind — I won't have you at the head ,of my boat. 

 Now, go forward." 



" Captain B ," I replied, " I am very much obliged to 



you for manifesting such interest in me. I wiU remember 

 and profit by your advice." 



"All right; I believe you," he added; and so we parted. 

 For the first time I had the thought that my good friend 

 Draper had not only secured me my berth, but had bespoken 

 the care of the worthy captain. 



"May 12. Having had our fill of this wretched land, we 

 weighed anchor and stood out from the arid, treeless shores 

 of Payta, bound for Cocos Island, in 10° N. lat., for water, 

 stopping at the Galapagos Islands, en route to secure a store 

 of terrapin. The second day from port we took two whales. 

 No peculiar incident lent an interest to the capture, but 

 they increased our oil to one hundi'ed and forty barrels, In 

 a few days we dropped anchor in the harbor of Porter Isl- 

 ands, a favored resort of Commodore Porter, commanding 

 the frigate Essex during the last war with Great Britain." 



