abandonedly

For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this --and rightly ascribed it --to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

Although the former were "generally clad suitable to their Condition", the latter were "the very Reverse - abandonedly rude, unmannerly, insolent and shameless".(24) The concentration of several thousand African Americans, many of whom were allowed virtually to fend for themselves, hiring out their own time and hustling around the markets, contributed to the often-commented-on dress and demeanour of Charleston blacks.