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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
161
I
had
now
no
chance
of
freedom
left,
unless
an
opportunity
should
offer
to
fly
the
country
before
the
bonds
became
due,
for
even
should
government
relinquish
the
duties,
the
costs
of
suit,
which
amount
in
most
cases
to
a
large
proportion
of
the
debt,
would
not
be
relinquished
till
doomsday.
To
avail
myself,
however,
of
this
only
expedient,
seemed
impracticable.
Even
the
shawls
and
trinkets
which
I
had
bestowed
upon
my
wife
in
the
days
of
our
prosperity,
were
already
sold,
and
the
proceeds
expended
for
bread.
I
was
a
fortnight
in
arrears
to
my
landlady,
and
had
not
a
friend
on
earth
from
whom
I
could
obtain
a
dollar.
How
then
could
I
get
away
with
nothing
to
pay
my
expenses,
or
those
of
my
wife
and
children
in
my
absence?
At
this
moment
of
difficulty
I
heard
that
Captain
Riley
had
obtained
some
pecuniary
relief,
by
publishing
a
book
of
Travels,
containing
accounts
not
much
more
marvellous
than
those
which
I
could
relate
of
Symzonia.
I
therefore
determined
to
make
a
brief
extract
from
my
journal
for
publication,
to
raise
the
wind,
reserving
most
of
the
details
of
minute
circumstances
for
my
personal
narrative,
and
my
scientific
researches
in
statistics,
geography,
botany,
ærology,
geology,
mineralogy,
zoology,
ornithology,
ichthyology,
conchology,
entomology,
horticulture,
agriculture,
&c.
&c.
&c.
to
be
digested
hereafter
under
appropriate
titles.
The
authenticity
and
genuineness
of
these
researches,
since
all
the
autographs
and
specimens
collected
to
corroborate
them
were
lost
by
the
bursting
open
of
the
ship's
paddle
port,
must
rest
upon
the
authority
of
my
extracts,
translations,
journal,
and
memory.
Should
they
even
be
questioned
and
disputed
about
by
the
Scavans
of
the
external
world,
the
generality
of
readers
will
probably
trouble
their
heads
very
little
on
that
score.
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