As soon as the tailor heard that his wife was really on her passage out, he ran off with a negress, and left nought behind but--debts.
The poor woman had given up a sure means of subsistence in her native land (she supported herself by cleaning lace and ladies' apparel), and had devoted her little savings to pay the expenses of her voyage, and all to find herself deserted and helpless in a strange hemisphere.

{14} From Hamburgh to Rio Janeiro is about 8,750 miles..