Harris had made everything of his mind and
character in spite of obstacles; while this man had evidently been
born in a different rank, and educated early in life accordingly,
but had been a vagabond, and done nothing for himself since. What
had been given to him by others, was all that made him to differ
from those about him; while Harris had made himself what he was.
Neither had George the character, strength of mind, acuteness, or
memory of Harris; yet there was about him the remains of a pretty good
education, which enabled him to talk perhaps beyond his brains, and
a high spirit and sense of honor, which years of a dog's life had
not broken. After he had been a little while on board, we learned from
him his remarkable history, for the last two years, which we
afterwards heard confirmed in such a manner, as put the truth of it
beyond a doubt.
He sailed from New York in the year 1833, if I mistake not, before
the mast, in the brig Lascar, for Canton. She was sold in the East
Indies, and he shipped at Manilla, in a small schooner, bound on a
trading voyage among the Ladrone and Pelew Islands.
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