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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who WasCaptured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen HundredAnd Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island,Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, AtDartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, AnecdotesAnd Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And PoliticalCharacters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A CorrectEngraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The MassacreOf American Prisoners, Written By Himself.
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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who WasCaptured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen HundredAnd Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island,Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, AtDartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, AnecdotesAnd Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And PoliticalCharacters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A CorrectEngraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The MassacreOf American Prisoners, Written By Himself.
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ing captain of the frigate to view and review us; like cattle in a market, before the drover or butcher.
When our baggage was brought on board, the master of arms took every portable article from us, not leaving us a jack-knife, pen-knife, or razor. We Americans never conduct so towards British prisoners. We always respect the private articles of the officer and sailor.
On the same day we were put on board the brig Curlew, lieutenant Head, a polite and humane gentleman, and much beloved by his own crew. He is, I am informed, son of an English baronet. He is a plain, honest man, with easy, elegant manners, and very unlike the sputtering commander of the Tenedos: a man who allowed us to be stripped of all our little pocket articles: not much to the honour of his commission, or credit of his nation. We were kept very close while on board the Curlew, because her crew was very weak, principally decrepid old men and boys; but then we were kindly spoken to, and respectfully and humanely treated by lieu
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