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did I forget her when I had sufficient to help her, as shall be
observed in its place.

T went down afterwards into Yorkshire, but my father was dead,
and my mother and all the family extinct, except that I found two
sisters and two of the children of one of my brothers; and as I
had been Jong ago given over for dead, there had been no provision
made for me: so that, in a word, I found nothing to relieve or
assist me; and that little money I had would not do much for me
as to settling in the world.

I met with one piece of gratitude, indeed, which I did not
expect; and this was, that the master of the ship, whom I had so
happily delivered, and by the same means saved the ship and
cargo, having given a very handsome account to the owners of the
manner how I had saved the lives of the men, and the ship, they
invited me to meet them and some other merchants concerned, and
all together made me a very handsome compliment upon the sub-
ject, and a present of almost two hundred pounds sterling.

But after making several reflections upon the circumstances of
my life, and how little way this would go towards settling me in
the world, I resolved to go to Lisbon, and see if I might not come
by some information of the state of my plantation in the Brazils,
and of what was become of my partner, who I had reason to sup-
pose had some years now given me over for dead.

With this view I took shipping for Lisbon, where I arrived in
April following, my man Friday accompanying me very honestly
in all these ramblings, and proving a most faithful servant upon
all occasions.

When I came to Lisbon I found out by inquiry, and to my
particular satisfaction, my old friend, the captain of the ship who
first took me up at sea off the shore of Africa. He was now grown
old, and had left off the sea, having put his son, who was far from
a young man, into his ship, and who still used the Brazil trade.
The old man did not know me, and indeed I hardly knew him ;
but I soon brought him to my remembrance, and as soon brought
myself to his remembrance when I told him who I was.

After some passionate expressions of the old acquaintance, J
inquired, you may be sure, after my plantation and my partner.