"I doubt that you'll even have to pay for your passage back."
They were young people who paid for their passage by work contracts.
Was he expected to go into another kind of servitude to pay for his passage?
Still, he and his friends had paid for half their passage.
I can get you onto it and I'll pay for your passage.
According to our records, you did not pay enough for your passage.
Meaning we'd end up fighting even if we did pay for our passage.
They had agreed to pay about $30,000 each for their passage to America.
The family sold a tract of land to pay for his passage.
However, the colony failed and he paid for their passage back to California.