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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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On
inquiry,
I
found
the
penalty
alluded
to
in
the
Wise
man's
memorial,
was
nothing
less
than
the
delivering
of
such
persons
to
the
most
severe
of
the
Useful
class,
to
be
kept
at
hard
work,
poorly
fed,
and
debarred
from
intercourse
with
the
pure--in
the
hope
that
in
process
of
time,
their
gross
appetites
might
be
scourged
out
of
them.
All
the
horrors
of
a
rice
swamp,
with
but
a
peck
of
corn
a
week
for
subsistence,
sprang
up
in
my
affrighted
imagination.
I
immediately
set
about
an
elaborate
petition
to
the
Best
Man,
in
which
I
endeavoured
to
refute
the
arguments
advanced
by
the
Wise
man,
and
to
show
that
my
dingy
complexion
was
owing
to
my
seafaring
life
on
the
external
world,
whereby
I
was
much
sunburnt;
and
that
the
Wise
man
had
been
led
into
error
by
mistaking
a
work
of
imagination,
for
real
history.
I
admitted
that
there
was
a
race
on
the
external
world,
inhabitants
of
some
islands
far
to
the
north,
who,
from
their
vicinity
to
the
place
of
exile,
might
be
the
descendants
of
the
outcasts,
but
who,
in
my
opinion,
were
more
probably
the
descendants
of
the
Belzubians,
being
a
restless,
turbulent
people,
much
given
to
depredations
upon
the
rights
and
property
of
others,
of
insatiable
ambition,
inordinate
avarice,
and
excessive
vanity;
who
made
war
their
chief
occupation,
maintaining
vast
fleets
and
armies;
who
plundered
the
feeble,
enslaved
the
unwary,
and
levied
contributions
by
force
or
fraud
upon
the
whole
human
race:
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