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[17] I find, in looking over his papers and accounts, that Ned, exclusively
of all the prison-ships, transports, and vessels in which he made
passages, has belonged regularly to seventy-two different crafts! In
some of these vessels he made many voyages. In the Sterling, he
made several passages with the writer; besides four European voyages,
at a later day. He made four voyages to Havre in the Erie, which
counts as only one vessel, in the above list. He was three voyages to
London, in the Washington, &c. &c. &c.; and often made two voyages
in the same ship. I am of opinion that Ned's calculation of his
having been twenty-five years out of sight of land is very probably
true. He must have sailed, in all ways, in near a hundred different
craft.—Editor.