The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although you did not include options for this question or any further reference or contexts, we can say the following.
The word you are looking for is "responsibilities."
For myself, there came then, as the first time during twenty busy years, a breathing space from work. I had no further connection with the country of my labors; indeed, officially, I had left it already. Into the working of the ship, it was contrary to rule that I should make any inspection or interest since all sea matters were the exclusive property of the Mariners' Guild, secured to them by royal patent, and most jealously guarded. I had no responsibilities.
We are talking about the book called "The Lost Continent," written by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne. A story that refers to what possibly could have been the so-called Lemurian continent of Mu continent. Historians and archeologists believe that this continent could have been located in what today is the Hawaiian Islands, in the Pacific.
