Chapter Five - The Story Starts

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James and Alex had to travel for a long time.

Alex has went into town one day, and found that there was a free cargo ship crossing the ocean to a land called America. Alex had heard about America from the store he clerked at. He had heard it was a land where you could succeed and was ruled by Great Britain across the Atlantic Ocean. The ship would be docked in Massachusetts Bay.

The ship left at 3:00 am so James and Alex were just now getting up. It was 2:30 am. James and Alexander had packed all of their belongings (though little they had left). They said goodbye to their shack and left.
They boarded the cargo ship just in time.
On board with them was a hobo named Francisco.
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They were just about to America. Alex had thrown up seven times and James wanted to throw himself overboard. They were both driven insane.

When the cargo ship docked, Alex and James grabbed the little luggage they had and sprinted off the boat.

When they stepped outside, the air wasn't too fresh. Green seas churned under the docks. The docks were lined with slaves waiting to be boarded and shipped to sell. There were terrible white men hoisting boxes of tea and other cargo onto the decks of ships.

Alex took a look around the disgusting first impression of America. He thought to himself, Well, I guess this is America.

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