Finding none in port, he loaded seven thousand bags of coffee in a ship for Copenhagen and conveyed as a passenger a kindred spirit, young Nathaniel Shaler, whom he took into partnership.

At Hamburg these two bought a fast brig, the Lelia Byrd, to try their fortune on the west coast of South America, and recruited a third partner, a boyish Polish nobleman, Count de Rousillon, who had been an aide to Kosciusko.

Three seafaring musketeers, true gentlemen rovers, all under thirty, sailing out to beard the viceroys of Spain! From Valparaiso, where other American ships were detained and robbed, they adroitly escaped and steered north to Mexico and California.

At San Diego they fought their way out of the harbor, silencing the Spanish fort with their six guns.

Then to Canton with furs, and Richard Cleveland went home at thirty years of age after seven years' absence and voyaging twice around the world, having wrested success from almost every imaginable danger and obstacle, with $70,000 to make him a rich man in his own town.