This is what was going to be done.

The "Pilgrim," after having effected her unloading at Valparaiso, would ascend the American coast as far as California.

There Tom and his companions would be well received by James W.Weldon--his generous wife assured them of it--and they would be provided with all that would be necessary for them to return to the State of Pennsylvania.
These honest men, reassured about the future, had only to thank Mrs.
Weldon and Captain Hull.

Certainly they owed them a great deal, and although they were only poor negroes, perhaps, they did not despair of some day paying this debt of gratitude..