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[Schweiss <omn...@pr...>]

Of money I had ever encountered in one spot. I advertised it in the
papers and suffered more than a thousand dollars' worth of solicitude
and fear and distress during the next few days lest the owner should see
the advertisement and come and take my fortune away. As many as four
days went by without an applicant; then I could endure this kind of
misery no longer. I felt sure that another four could not go by in this
safe and secure way. I felt that I must take that money out of danger.
So I bought a ticket for Cincinnati and went to that city. I worked
there several months in the printing-office of Wrightson and Company. I
had been reading Lieutenant Herndon's account of his explorations of the
Amazon and had been mightily attracted by what he said of coca. I made
up my mind that I would go to the head waters of the Amazon and collect
coca and trade in it and make a fortune. I left for New Orleans in the
steamer "Paul Jones" with this great idea filling my mind. One of the