A True Relation of the Travels and Perilous Adventures of Mathew Dudgeon, Gentleman Wherein Is Truly Set Down the Manner of His Taking, the Long Time and Means of His Delivery Classic Reprint

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For the first time master of myself, the old longing came over me, and laying out about two thousand pounds in goods that my experience had taught me were suit able, I embarked them in the Antelope. Captain Manwaring, who was an old friend of my uncle's, his ship then lying in the Thames bound for Smyrna, with several other merchants, and goods to great value on board. The parting with my wife was exceeding painful, as indeed it would be to any man of right feelings. My wife, poor creature, held up brave y until the last moment, though I knew that her heart was full of forebodings at the departure for so long a period of her dear husband; and the more so, since I had never yet left her and the stories I had related to her of my previous voyages and perils had filled her soul with perhaps unnecessary alarm but little Tom, our child, jumped and crowed in her arms, deli hted at the confusion and bustle around. Kissed her, and bade her be of good cheer, but she only sobbed the louder until little Tom, struck by her sorrowful mien, paused in his merriment and gazed so wistfully in her face that she fell to kiss ing and hugging him, and forgot half her pain. Seizing this opportune moment, I motioned to the boatmen to cast off, at the.

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