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 XXXIII. SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS., connecting personal narrative with the financial, legal, and prison-world setting of the period. The chapter’s opening perspective is: The bridge had no protection along the side save a simple stringpiece of timber. On the far side the houses rested nearly against the bridge entrance, forming a street, which I had to pass through.
This chapter is for readers following Bidwell’s memoir chapter by chapter, especially the section titled “Chapter XXXIII. SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS..” 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 XXXIII. SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS.” 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.