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Having gone over to the Confederacy, he did nothing by halves, but set resolutely to work to induce as many as possible of his shipmates to follow his example, and several of them did so, not knowing, however, that he intended to conduct us to the ships, that contained the friends and acquaintances with whom they had grown up from boyhood. 164 THE SHENANDOAH; OB THE Had they been aware of it, I do not believe a man of them would have enlisted under our flag. The remainder of the Abigail's crew ...stood out resolute against all inducements held out to them, and earnestly besought permission to land on the Siberian shore, from whence they imagined they could get off" and join the Russian whaling fleet, cruising in the vi- cinity. To this, however, Captain Waddell would not assent, and they took the disappointment philosophically, as they did the rest of* their misfortunes. The more we learned of the Abigail's crew the better we liked them, with the exception of the second mate, who, though he rendered us good service, we could not well help de- spising.
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