[95] On the Georgia coast.
[97] Mr. Philbrick was staying at Coffin's for a few days.
[98] The agreement made on April 8, between Mr. Philbrick and fourteen gentlemen, all but one of Boston, provided that Mr. Philbrick, in whose name the land should be bought and who should have complete responsibility for managing it, should, after paying the subscribers six per cent. interest, receive one fourth of the net profits. Mr. Philbrick was to be liable for losses and without the right to call for further contribution; on the other hand, no subscription was to be withdrawn unless he ceased to superintend the enterprise. On his closing the business, the net proceeds were to be divided pro rata.
[99] Joe having gone back to his trade of carpenter, the domestic force now included a boy and a girl (daughter of Abel and sister of Hester), marvelously ignorant, even for a Sea Island field-hand. Uncle Sam, Robert's father, was acting as cook.
[100] A boy lately added to the corps of house-servants at Coffin's Point.
[101] From unwillingness to see the land owned by any one but negroes.
[102] A detachment from the Eighteenth Army Corps, under Major-General John G. Foster, had come to help in the operations against Charleston.
[103] The new postmaster for Beaufort.
[104] A cousin in the 24th Massachusetts, which had come to Land's End as part of the "North Carolina army."