The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-10-15

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A only with going to sea, and
being one day at Hull and one of my
companions about TO go by sea to- Lon
don in his fathers ship, nothing would
serve me but / must go with him-this
on September S. 1861. and | being then
nineteen years of age.
The ship vas no m out of port
! than the wind began to blow and the
sea to rise in the most frightful man.
ner, which made me most terribly sick
In body and frightened in mind. In
my agony | vowed that If God would
spare NE through this one voyage I
would 20. Immediately | set foot on
land. directly home TO my good par
ents and be V after guided in my
conduct by their advice.
But next day the wind was abated
and the sea calmer, and the sun went
down 10 a perfectly fine evening, and
when to that was added a bowl of
punch made by a shipmate. 1 forgot my
resolution TO return home after the
voyage: and such has been my habit,
to my great misfortune. all my life:
to disvow in the hour of peril the
headstrong actions which have brought
me to peril, and when the danger Is
past to forget all vows and plunge
headlong 0nce more on my Needless
courses.
Various were my adventures after
that first tempestuous voyage. Trad
fnU fn C1fnnn in AfriDo UoC non
tured by q Turkish rover and sold into
slavery. from whence after many
perils I escaped to the Brazils. where
/ set myself up for a sugar planter
and was enjoying a fine prosperity
thereat, when I fell a victim to temp
tation. Help being scarce in the Bra
zils and some planters there knowing
that I had traded with the slave coasts
Of Africa. they beguiled me into a voy-
age to those parts with the intent to
secure slave labor for our plantations.
Only evil does ever come Of evil
counsel. Our ship was wrecked on
an unknown island off to the northeast |
ships company / alone, by the bless !
ing of God, was allowed to escape
through the high surf to the shore.
I possessed at the time was a knife,
a pipe and a little tobacco in Il box. |
Walking along the shore, when I had
recovered sufficiently in strength so to
walk, / found fresh water, a great Joy.
Having drunk and put a little tobacco
against the hunger in my mouth, I took
up my lodging in a tree and did there
sleep to my great refreshment through
out the night.
and the sea mild, but what pleased me
most was the sight Of the ship which,
as the tide ebbed, lay so close to the
shore that I found no trouble In swim
ming out to 1t. No living thing except
4 dog and two cats were left on the
but there was a store of neces-
aides, and such / took, building a raft
Tor the purpose Of transporting them
an inlet in the island where was
fresh water and a fat high place for
my habitation. On the night of the
thirteenth day. my work of transpor-
tati0n being done, / lay down in my
usual fear of wild beasts, but also of
in the knowledge that
was prepared for some time to come
the ~barrenness Of this island
There were wild fruit trees on the
but it was many days before
[ discovered them. There were also
goats running wild, but without the
firearms and ammunition I had brought
the ship of what avail were they
b me? So / had reason to be thank-i