I was assured that I should meet with success corresponding with my merits.

I regarded the suggestion as a compliment; and having agreed to accompany Captain Thompson on another coasting voyage to New York, I determined to take the matter into consideration.

I never returned to Newbern.

But I have always felt grateful for the kind conduct and encouraging words which I received from the good people of that pleasant and flourishing city.
Ever since that time the name of Newbern falls gently on my ear, and conjures up a thousand agreeable associations.
The owner of the Mary, Mr.Jarvis, was an active and enterprising man.

He did not allow his vessels to remain idle.