Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, Europe, 1824-1826, page 15
that I behold and when I turn and Behold your shores that is diprived [deprived] of those multitudes of diffrents [different] sex what Can I say besides when you meat [meet] a person you now [know] him and pas [pass] the time of day with Him but was I to due [do] that I shood [should] want ten thousen [thousand] of tunges [tongues] and more wisdom then Solomon haid was indowd [endowed] with this subjeck [subject] will be to [too] long for me to persue [pursue] thare fore [therefore] I will close it in season for fear of offending the reador [reader] and then he will supose [suppose] that he noes [knows] as mutch [much] as the ritor [writer] thare fore [therefore] I will not deprive him of his thotes [thoughts] and he may Maintain his one [own] opinon [opinion] and think Him self as wise as the rest of his Frendes [friends] and gestified [justified] in so duing [doing] For amanes [a man’s] viger [vigor] diprives [deprives] him of maney [many] things [things] that he mite [might] now [know]
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Samuel Hadlock of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in Europe, where he exhibited a group of Inuit and Romani people as entertainment.
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