We shared the long hours, the often rough seas, the successes and the disappointments in a close companionship with the captains and crews of the Italian boats and also with the little clique of fishermen whose small draggers were moored cheek by jowl with us in Annisquam Harbor.

The examples of all ages shew us that mankind in general desire power only to do harm, and, when they obtain it, use it for no other purpose.

The Sinking-Fund's unfathomable sea, / That most unliquidating liquid, leaves / The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.

I am afraid they have got me in a line.* In addition to the rest of my troubles, I find this shifting ships and fitting out messes attended with an enormous expense. […] * A common phrase among the seamen at Bitche, meaning to allure or entice.