Interesting Account of the Life and Adventures of One of Those Unfortunate Men, Who Was Shot at Tampico
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Excerpt from Interesting Account of the Life and Adventures of One of Those Unfortunate Men, Who Was Shot at Tampico: With Twenty-Seven of His Companions, December 14th, 1835; With a List of All Their Names, Together With the Letter Which Were Written by the Sufferers I am an American by birth, and glory in the name; I was born in the town of E - , county of C. my parents were in humble circumstances, but respectable, my father was a farmer, and had seven children, of which I was the eldest, and my parents intended to give me as liberal an education as their means would allow, (as I was very delicate, and they were fearful in my youthful days that I was in a decline) and prepare me for the ministry; but Providence has decreed it otherwise. I was sent to a most respectable school under the charge of Mr. E., one of the best of men, and an excellent scholar, where I remained three years, and prepared for college, but at that time I took a wild notion in my head of going to sea, which almost broke the hearts of my dear parents, and they endeavored all in their power to persuade me from such a mad career, but I would not listen to their kind and affectionate advice, (the Devil leading me on) and after my parents found that all their entreaties were of no avail they consented to my going a voyage, trusting that if I was spared I would return and relinquish such a life. My dear mother then began to make preparations for my departure, and to get me such things as I would stand in need of for my comfort, when I was far away from her, and toss´d about on the boisterous ocean. After all things were ready, I left my brothers and sisters, and my dear parent, with many prayers offered up to the throne of grace, for my safe return, and started for the city of B - , with my father, where we arrived after a few hours, and put up at the house of Mr. H, who I think was an excellent man, and who did all in his power to try and persuade me to give up the idea of going to sea, and return home. I must confess I almost began to repent, but the idea of returning and being laughed at by my young companions, made me determined to "Go-Ahead." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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