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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
154
CHAPTER
XX.
The
Author
arrives
in
the
United
States--Consigns
his
cargo
to
Mr.
Slippery--Is
reduced
to
poverty
by
the
failure
of
Mr.
Slippery.--His
great
distress.--Inducement
to
publish
this
brief
account
of
his
discoveries.--Conclusion.
On
my
arrival
in
port,
I
felt
the
importance
which
an
ample
fortune
gives
a
man
in
this
external
world.
The
arrival
of
a
South
Sea
ship
from
Canton,
with
a
valuable
China
cargo,
was
no
unusual
occurrence,
and
excited
no
extraordinary
interest;
but
it
was
speedily
rumoured
that
the
Explorer
had
made
a
splendid
voyage,
and
that
Capt.
Seaborn
was
as
rich
as
a
nabob.
Abundant
civilities
were
proffered
to
me,
and
numberless
invitations
to
dinner
were
politely
given.
I
had
now
to
select
some
merchant
to
assist
in
disposing
of
my
cargo,
my
long
absence,
and
consequent
ignorance
of
dealers,
rendering
it
imprudent
for
me
to
transact
my
own
business;
besides
which,
I
found
that,
notwithstanding
the
whole
of
my
merchandise
was
as
much
the
product
of
American
industry,
as
though
I
and
my
people
had
dug
it
out
of
the
soil,
(for
instead
of
obtaining
it
with
specie,
we
had
procured
it
by
our
own
manual
labour,)
I
was
required
to
pay
or
secure
the
enormous
sum
of
one
hundred
and
ninety
thousand
dollars
duties
to
government.
A
strange
thing
surely,
that
the
same
tax
should
be
levied
on
the
privilege
of
bringing
the
fruits
of
our
own
industry
into
the
country,
as
on
cargoes
bought
with
silver
dollars,
the
carrying
away
of
which
impoverishes
the
nation.
This
did
not
seem
altogether
right
either
for
individuals
or
the
country;
but
there
was
no
use
in
reasoning
about
it--it
was
required
by
law.
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