Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tudies had fittedhim to take a good place inthe merchant service, andhe soon had an offer to shipin the slave trade, whichwas one of the most flour-ishing branches of Englishcommerce at that time. Soarrangements were made,and the day came when theship King George set sailfrom Whitehaven withJohn Paul for third ship went to Africaand returned, and whenPaul next went to sea—which was very soon—itwas as chief mate of theTwo Friends. He M^as nownineteen years old, and car-r
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . tudies had fittedhim to take a good place inthe merchant service, andhe soon had an offer to shipin the slave trade, whichwas one of the most flour-ishing branches of Englishcommerce at that time. Soarrangements were made,and the day came when theship King George set sailfrom Whitehaven withJohn Paul for third ship went to Africaand returned, and whenPaul next went to sea—which was very soon—itwas as chief mate of theTwo Friends. He M^as nownineteen years old, and car-ried his cargo of humanbeings safely to the islandof Jamaica, where the ves-sel belonged. But as soonas his duty was fulfilled J^^^ ^^^^ J^^^ he gave up the ship. He declared he would never again have anythingto do with the slave trade, and took passage for home in the first shipbound for Great Britain. Yellow fever broke out during the voyage. Captain, mate, and allthe chief officers died, leaving the brig in the middle of the Atlantic with-out a man of the crew able to guide its course. The young passenger. 84 JOHN PAUL JONES. took command, and the men soon saw that, though he was but twentyyears of age, he was a thorough sailor, and all obeyed and respected himas their regular chief. He brought the vessel safely to her port, whichwas near his own home, and the company rewarded him by making himher captain. During his first regular voyage in this brig, a false report was raisedthat he killed the carpenter, whom he had had to flog for neglecting hisduty, but who died of a fever some time after landing at the West was so much talked about, and so great a time made over CaptainPauls cruelties, that he left Scotland for good in 1771. After servingin Englands West India trade for awhile, he came to Virginia, where hisbrother had left him heir to a goodly estate. The country which had dis-trusted and slandered him he would claim no longer. Hereafter he wouldbe an Ame
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