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62 the gulf of Florida, and their lives were thus saved. But his sufferings did not here terminate. Having embarked for New York, he was again wrecked, and, at great hazard, reached one of the Bahama Islands. Here he continued several months, and at last found an opportunity of being conveyed to Charleston, South Carolina. Thus reduced to poverty, a "stranger in a strange land" expecting to subsist on the bounty of the charitable, at least for a short time, he was unexpectedly introduced to a person of great wealth and influence in that city, who proposed to engage his services in a commercial enterprise which he had projected, and which would have realized to Sandiford a large sum of money. The following notice of that offer, and the reasons why Sandiford refused it, are given in his own words.

"I had, while in South Carolina, a service presented by one esteemed the richest in the province, who would have bestowed large gifts on me, which engaged me to acknowledge his affection, and the openness