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Just before the Christmas holidays my father, who was the New York manager of the _Singer Crude Oil Engine Company_, told mother and me that he had to make a business trip to Nicaragua.
There was nothing exciting in this announcement for dad went off on business trips quite often, but when he said that he would take us with him and we'd go by steamer I immediately sat up and took notice, for I had wanted to make a sea voyage ever since I could remember.