Rollo on the Atlantic

In Rollo on the Atlantic by Jacob Abbott, Rollo, his brother Nathan, and his parents take a trip to Europe. However, after an odd mixup of travel plans, twelve-year-old Rollo must travel across the Atlantic alone. Excerpt: «When Rollo was about twelve years of age, he made a voyage to Europe under rather extraordinary circumstances. He went alone; that is to say, he had no one to take care of him. In fact, in addition to being obliged to take care of himself, he had also his little sister Jane to take care of; for she went with him. The way it happened that two such children were sent to sea on such a long voyage, without anyone to have them in charge, was this. Rollo's father and mother had gone to Europe to make a tour, a year before this time, and had taken Rollo's brother Nathan, or Thanny, as Rollo used most frequently to call him, with them.»