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Excerpt from Travels Through the South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808: By a Route Never Before Performed, Being Along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne, Through the Greater Part of Their Course
The Captain with whom I sailed was a true character. Captain Eliab Jones, as he related his historyto me, was the son of a very respectable clergyman in the West of England. His mother died when he, was a boy about twelve years Of age, leaving his father with a very large family. The father married again. Young Eliab either actu ally was, Or fancifully believed himself to be, ill-treated by his step-mother. Under this real or imaginary suffering he' sloped from his father's house; and making the best of his way for a sea-port, bound himself apprentice to the master Of a coasting vessel.
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