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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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I
went
to
my
family
in
a
state
bordering
upon
distraction.
The
troubles,
mortifications,
and
miseries
which
followed,
I
forbear
to
dwell
on.
I
endeavoured
to
sell
my
house,
but
was
told
that
property
had
depreciated
so
much,
it
was
worth
no
more
than
the
mortgage,
for
which
the
holder
kindly
took
it
off
my
hands.
At
length
I
was
constrained
to
take
Mr.
Slippery's
advice,
and
apply
for
the
benefit
of
the
act
abolishing
imprisonment
for
debt.
I
was
now
reduced
to
great
straits,
being
confined
to
the
Liberties,
as
they
are
called--for
the
enjoyment
of
which
restrained
liberty
I
found
great
difficulty
in
obtaining
sufficient
bail,
my
friends
having
entirely
disappeared.
Fortunately
I
met
with
an
old
school-fellow,
who,
on
hearing
of
my
distress,
proffered
his
bail,
notwithstanding
that
the
forfeiture
of
it
would
utterly
ruin
him.
At
this
period,
when
I
frequently
rose
in
the
morning,
without
knowing
how
I
should
provide
food
for
my
children
through
the
day,
I
found
it
difficult
to
feel
and
believe
that
it
was
all
for
the
best.
With
neither
the
means
of
subsistence
for
my
family,
nor
liberty
to
go
in
pursuit
of
them,
my
misfortunes
and
privations
often
weighed
down
my
spirits,
and
became
almost
insupportable.
When
I
thought
of
my
situation,
I
felt
no
longer
like
a
man.
But
the
remembrance
of
the
pious
resignation,
the
humility,
the
contentment,
the
peacefulness
and
happiness
of
the
Symzonians,
recalled
me
to
a
conviction
of
the
truth,
that
with
a
temper
of
calm
and
cordial
submission
to
the
will
of
Providence,
a
man
may
be
happy
under
any
circumstances,
but
without
it
must
be
wretched.
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