After this I shall try to think of my soul, and cultivate, not the hope of escape, but the hope full of immortality.

Yes, More, after all we shall live, if not in England, then, let us hope, in heaven." There was a long silence after this--that kind of silence which one may preserve who is at the point of death.
"I wonder how he got here ?" said Agnew, at last.

"The letter mentions a whaler.

No doubt the ship has been driven too far south; it has foundered; he has escaped in a boat, either alone or with others; he has been carried along this channel, and has landed here, afraid to go any farther." "But his boat, what has become of that ?" "His boat! That must have gone long ago.

The letter was written in 1820.