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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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At
length,
having
made
up
my
own
mind
on
the
subject,
I
called
my
officers
and
people
together,
and
stated
to
them
that
if
we
should
on
our
return
to
the
United
States,
or
at
Canton,
declare
the
discoveries
we
had
made,
we
should
in
the
first
place
expose
ourselves
to
the
charge
of
being
impostors
and
outrageous
falsifiers;
in
the
second
place,
our
countrymen,
and
even
the
Europeans,
who
would
give
us
no
credit
for
our
bravery
and
enterprise,
would
avail
themselves
of
all
the
information
we
might
communicate,
to
fit
out
expeditions
to
Seaborn's
Land,
and
possibly
to
Belzubia,
and
thus
reap
the
harvest
of
our
planting;
but,
worse
than
all,
after
thus
appropriating
to
themselves
the
benefits
of
our
skill
and
perseverance,
they
would
assert
that
they
had
made
all
those
discoveries,
call
all
those
places
by
new
names,
and
affirm
that
we
had
never
been
there
at
all.
On
the
other
hand,
by
concealing
the
knowledge
of
these
discoveries
in
our
own
breasts,
we
could
derive
extensive
benefits
therefrom
during
the
remainder
of
our
lives.
To
effect
this,
they
had
only
to
bind
themselves
to
me
by
oath,
to
keep
this
matter
a
profound
secret,
and
when
they
had
been
a
sufficient
time
on
shore,
or
had
spent
most
of
their
money,
I
would
fit
out
the
Explorer,
or
another
and
better
vessel,
under
the
command
of
Mr.
Boneto
or
Mr.
Albicore,
in
which
all
should
share
according
to
their
present
standing
on
my
books,
and
for
which
I
should
have
money
enough
out
of
my
profits
from
the
present
voyage.
This
would
give
us
all
a
certain
resource
for
the
good
things
of
this
life;
whereas
if
we
made
our
adventures
public,
the
business
would
be
overdone
in
a
year
or
two,
and
we
should
then
have
to
look
to
the
moon
or
some
of
the
planets
for
room
for
further
discoveries.
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