Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

very weak and very fragile ... he wasn't the same person that left Pennsylvania in March.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.