Vulgar words in Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude (Page 1)
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A Modern Jeffreys--Penal Servitude for Life--End of the Primrose Way--A Resolve--Will Fortune Ever Smile Again?--Newgate to Chatham Prison--A Cocky Little Major--You Were Sent Here to Work--In the Mud--Night and Silence.
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Soon I discovered a heap on the stern, which on closer inspection proved to be nets, and my fears boiled down showed me they were simply fishermen and I an ass and somewhat ashamed of myself.
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At one of the loveliest, called Cayos de Tana, with a wide fringe of white beach, we landed; that is, our boat ran toward it until the keel stuck in the sand, when a dozen black fellows sprang over into the water, and, taking us white trash on their shoulders, carried us ashore.
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Opening it and pretending to read, I said in a solemn tone of voice: "When time and place adhere write me down an ass."