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Updated: July 14, 2025
Returning from selling a cargo of Guinea negroes to the Spaniards of Hispaniola not at all a discreditable transaction in those days he had run short of water and had put into the River of May, to obtain a supply. Touched by the pitiful condition of the Frenchmen, he opened his ship-stores, gave them wine and biscuit, and sold them other supplies very cheaply, taking cannon in payment.
That evening I heard that Frank had ineffectually endeavoured to get removed from his place as an oarsman in the First-Cutter a boat which, from its size, is generally employed with the launch in carrying ship-stores.
Away at the top was the great shipowning peer, the colossus of that particular part of the country, an ominous and omnipotent figure. Below him were other shipowners, smaller fry, living in fine houses where they had made their money, connected by marriage with the next below, still smaller shipowners and men who had built up successful repair-shops and ship-stores.
The next morning, we were all envying his fortune; when, of a sudden, he bolted in upon us, looking decidedly out of humour. "Hang it!" he cried; "I'm worse off than ever; let me have some breakfast!" We lowered our slender bag of ship-stores from a rafter, and handed him a biscuit. While this was being munched, he went on and told us his story.
A company of pious souls compassionate Lubeck ship-captains diligently forwarding it, and one Walpot von Bassenheim, a citizen of Bremen, taking the lead formed themselves into a union for succor of the sick and dying; "set up canvas tents," medicinal assuagements, from the Lubeck ship-stores; and did what utmost was in them, silently in the name of Mercy and Heaven.
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