They found only a few nager inhabitants, an' shure they tuk thim fur servants.

Me parents were among the survivors from the ship an' Oi wuz born about a year afther the wreck.

As toime went on, the nagers gradually acquired the accent of their masthers.

Whin Oi grow up Oi shipped on a tradin' schooner in which we wus cast away near Nassau.

There Oi joined an English ship; n' fur foive years put in the loife av a sailor forninst the mast.