Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia: Or, Passage in the Life of Alfred Barnard (Classic Reprint)

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I soon found that my companion was a finished scoundrel, up to the chin in every sort of rascality. On shore I should never have spoken to him twice at sea he was amusing. He had been everywhere, and in every sort of craft, according to his own account; had had money and lived in great style told stories of whales, slavers, Indiamen and pirates, by the dozen. He early confided to me that no thing but misfortune would have driven him to engage in such a miserable little tub of a craft, under such aknow-nothing lubber as Captain Glum. A misfortune Sir, that any gentleman might have fallen into.

This misfortune, he presently let me know, con sisted in having been convicted of bigamy and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. He had only been discharged a couple of days, when he joined us. To hear him, he was a victim, -just one of those heroic victims of London passions one meets with in French and German novels. He ended his story by saying.

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