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tain that if he lost another man he would have difficulty 

 in carrying his vessel into port ; but he put this down 

 at once by swearing that, if he lost every hand on board, 

 the mate and he could carry her in themselves, deck- 

 load and all. 



On the thirty-first of July we arrived at New- York, 

 being ten months less three days since we sailed, and 

 nine without having received any intelligence whatever , 

 from our friends at home ; deducting the time passed * 

 at sea, but seven months and twenty-four days in the 

 prosecution of our work. This, I am sure, must recom- 

 mend us to every true American ; and here, on the same 

 spot from which we set out together, and with but little 

 hope of ever journeying with him again, I bid the reader 

 farewell. 



