Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
This chapter develops the memoir’s account of Chapter XXIX. I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O’ER GREEN NEPTUNE’S BACK., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: It was 11 o’clock when we started. The streets were thronged, and the throngs moving in one direction.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XXIX. I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O'ER GREEN NEPTUNE'S BACK..” It is most useful for readers interested in financial crime history, nineteenth-century banking culture, criminal justice, prison memoir, and the social setting of the period.
Read “Chapter XXIX. I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O'ER GREEN NEPTUNE'S BACK.” as a historical memoir rather than guidance. The banking procedures, legal assumptions, public reputation, social judgments, travel conditions, and prison practices described belong to Bidwell’s nineteenth-century setting and may not match modern institutions.