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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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At
this
period
of
pecuniary
distress,
Will
Mackerel
accidentally
heard
of
the
misfortunes
of
his
old
commander,
and
hastened
to
see
me.
He
could
not
comprehend
why
my
being
possessed
of
the
Liberties
should
prevent
me
from
going
to
sea,
to
acquire
the
means
of
subsistence
for
my
family.
The
worthy
fellow
was
wholly
incompetent
to
understand
the
policy
of
depriving
a
man
of
liberty,
preventing
him
from
supplying
the
wants
of
those
dependant
on
him,
and
compelling
him
to
cast
them
as
paupers
upon
the
community,
because
he
had,
through
misfortune,
lost
all
his
property.
Will
had
spent
most
of
the
money
obtained
by
his
voyage
with
me;
but
after
hearing
my
story,
and
an
account
of
the
embarrassments
under
which
I
laboured,
he
threw
every
dollar
that
remained
to
him
upon
the
table,
and
declared
he
would
never
touch
a
shilling
of
it
whilst
his
old
commander
was
in
distress,
but
would
go
to
sea
to
render
me
further
aid.
I
accepted
this
generous
bounty
with
the
frankness
with
which
it
was
offered,
and
recorded
Will
in
my
heart
as
a
true-hearted
sailor.
It
was
but
little
that
he
had
left
to
bestow
upon
me,
but
it
preserved
me
from
the
extremity
of
want
for
some
time.
I
was
cheering
myself
with
the
prospect
of
obtaining
my
real
liberty,
and
of
persuading
some
man
of
capital
to
equip
a
suitable
vessel
for
a
second
voyage
to
Seaborn's
land,
on
terms
which
would
give
me
a
fair
share
of
the
advantages
of
the
undertaking,
when
I
was
informed
that
Mr.
Slippery
had
neither
paid
nor
provided
for
the
duties
on
the
Explorer's
cargo;
that
the
bonds
which
he
had
given,
owing
to
the
long
credits
on
China
goods,
were
not
yet
due;
and
that,
as
I
was
the
importer,
I
was
responsible
for
the
whole
amount,
and
should
be
required
to
pay
the
uttermost
farthing,
or
lie
in
jail
during
the
pleasure
of
government,
no
insolvent
act
being
considered
of
sufficient
force
to
impair
that
prerogative
of
government,
by
which
citizens
were
deprived
of
their
liberty
when
misfortune
had
deprived
them
of
every
thing
else.
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