Note 1 — Chapter XVII · A PRESENTATION.
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“Famine, despair, cold, thirst, and heat had done Their work on them by turns, and thinn’d them to Such things a mother had not known her son Amidst the skeletons of that gaunt crew.” Don Juan, Canto ii. 102.
[2] “In a little time I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested ‘I should never go to sea any more;’ although my evil destiny so ordered, that she had not the power to hinder me.”