Pencroft at the beginning of the year had gone to Richmond on business, with a young boy of fifteen from New Jersey, son of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he had been his own child.
Pencroff, a primeros de año, había ido para asuntos particulares a Richmond, con un joven de quince años, Harbert Brown, de Nueva Jersey, hijo de su capitán, un huérfano al que amaba como a su propio hijo.