(1) Choose one Agitated Peremptory Apprehended though I was while this ceremony was proceeding, still, externally, at least, I was apparently calm and self-possessed. (2) He went on with his duty—examining several colored passengers before reaching me. (3) He was somewhat harsh in tone and Choose one agitated peremptory imminent in manner until he reached me, when, strange enough, and to my surprise and relief, his whole manner changed. (4) Seeing that I did not readily produce my free papers, as the other colored persons in the car had done, he said to me, in friendly contrast with his bearing toward the others:

“I suppose you have your free papers?”

(5) To which I answered: “No sir; I never carry my free papers to sea with me.”

(6) “But you have something to show that you are a freeman, haven’t you?”

(7) “Yes, sir,” I answered; “I have a paper with the American Eagle on it, and that will carry me around the world.”

(8) With this I drew from my deep sailor's pocket my seaman's protection, as before described. (9) The merest glance at the paper satisfied him, and he took my fare and went on about his business. (10) This moment of time was one of the most anxious I ever experienced. (11) Had the conductor looked closely at the paper, he could not have failed to discover that it called for a very different-looking person from myself, and in that case it would have been his duty to arrest me on the instant, and send me back to Baltimore from the first station. (12) When he left me with the Choose one interior assurance prey that I was all right, though much relieved, I realized that I was still in great danger: I was still in Maryland, and subject to arrest at any moment. (13) I saw on the train several persons who would have known me in any other clothes, and I feared they might recognize me, even in my sailor “rig,” and report me to the conductor, who would then subject me to a closer examination, which I knew well would be Choose one vigilant assurance fatal to me.

(14) Though I was not a murderer fleeing from justice, I felt perhaps quite as miserable as such a criminal. (15) The train was moving at a very high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. (16) Minutes were hours, and hours were days during this part of my flight. (17) After Maryland, I was to pass through Delaware—another slave State, where slave-catchers generally awaited their Choose one peremptory apprehended prey , for it was not in the Choose one interior assurance imminent of the State, but on its borders, that these human hounds were most Choose one vigilant fugitives agitated and active. (18) The border lines between slavery and freedom were the dangerous ones for the Choose one betraying fugitives interior . (19) The heart of no fox or deer, with hungry hounds on his trail in full chase, could have beaten more anxiously or noisily than did mine from the time I left Baltimore till I reached Philadelphia. (20) The passage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of which I met a young colored man by the name of Nichols, who came very near Choose one betraying vigilant fatal me. . . .

(21) The last point of Choose one interior vigilant imminent danger, and the one I dreaded most, was Wilmington. (22) Here we left the train and took the steam-boat for Philadelphia. In making the change here I again Choose one agitated apprehended betraying arrest, but no one disturbed me, and I was soon on the broad and beautiful Delaware, speeding away to the Quaker City. (23) On reaching Philadelphia in the afternoon, I inquired of a colored man how I could get on to New York. (24) He directed me to the William-street depot, and thither I went, taking the train that night. (25) I reached New York Tuesday morning, having completed the journey in less than twenty-four hours.