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October 1849, Fairhaven
Manjiro stood leaning on his spade, listening to the wind in the trees. It'd be a fine sailing day. With the wind astern, a bark like the Franklin could probably clip along at ten or eleven knots and put a hundred miles between it and New Bedford by dusk. He shook himself free of such thoughts. It would not be right to leave the Whitfields now-he was needed here. He tried to turn his mind back to digging potatoes.