He gave me a good round sum for my boat, and said that I should
have the same sum for Xury, if I would part with him. But I told
him that as it was by the boy's help that I had got free, I was
loath to sell him. He said it was just and right in me to feel
thus, but at the same time, if I could make up my mind to part
with him, he should be set free in two years' time. So, as the
poor slave had a wish to go with him, I did not say "no." I got
to All Saints' Bay in three weeks, and was now a free man.

I had made a good sum by all my store, and with this I went on
land. But I did not at all know what to do next. At length I met
with a man whose case was much the same as my own, and we both
took some land to farm. My stock, like his, was low, but we made
our farms serve to keep us in food, though not more than that. We
both stood in need of help, and I saw now that I had done wrong
to part with my boy.

I did not at all like this kind of life. What! thought I, have I
come all this way to do that which I could have done as well at
home with my friends round me! And to add to my grief, the kind
friend, who had brought me here in his ship, now meant to leave
these shores.

On my first start to sea when a boy, I had put a small sum in the
hands of an aunt, and this my friend said I should do well to
spend on my farm. So when he got home he sent some of it in cash,
and laid out the rest in cloth, stuffs, baize, and such like
goods. My aunt had put a few pounds in my friend's hands as a
gift to him, to show her thanks for all that he had done for me,