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These devices typically use synthesized speech which is computer speech that says what the child selects . The situation was offered him only a few hours before we sailed ; and though he must give up returning to America , yet I have no doubt that the change from a dog 's berth to an officer 's , was too agreeable to his feelings to be declined . All the hides that had been collected since the California left the coast , ( a little more than two years , ) amounting to about forty thousand , were cured , dried , and stowed away in the house , waiting for our good ship to take them to Boston . We had had a new topmast studding-sail made with a reef in it , - a thing hardly ever heard of , and which the sailors had ridiculed a good deal , saying that when it was time to reef a studding-sail , it was time to take it in . We left here the young Englishman , George Marsh , of whom I have before spoken , who was wrecked upon the Pelew Islands .