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OF HIS OWN LIFE.
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CHAPTER IX.
TAKEN SOUTH, AWAY FROM WIFE AND CHILDREN.
START FOR NEW ORLEANS—STUDY NAVIGATION ON THE MISSISSIPPI—THE CAPTAIN STRUCK BLIND—FIND SOME OF MY OLD COMPANIONS.—THE LOWER DEPTHS.
Things went on in this way about a year. From time to time Master Amos joked me about the six hundred and fifty dollars, and said his brother kept writing to know why I did not send something. It was "diamond cut diamond" with the two brothers. Mr. Amos had no desire to play into the hands of Mr. Isaac. He was glad enough to secure my services to take care of his stock and his people.
One day my master suddenly informed me that his son Amos, a young man about twenty-one years of age, was going down the river
