132 Of fit Ufefulnefs of Attention 



ficient to give birth to fuch reflections as may 

 be ilfeful to yourfelves and your country. 



Such a voyage is undertaken in the coldeft 

 feafon, in the ftormy November,, the dark De- 

 cember,, and the following winter months; 

 This regulation is made on account of fetching 

 money horn' Spain, and left the raonfoons in 

 the Chinefe lea mould be loft. I do not fpeak 

 of thofe voyages which are made firft to Suratt, 

 and- thence to China ; for thefe are begun in 

 the fprin'g, and have only the voyage home in 

 common with the other* 



The exchange of a* good 1 warm room for a 

 eold Ihip-cabin (for there is no other fire on- 

 board except that by which the meat is boiled) 

 is a mod fenfiblc change, when the body i3 

 not well lecured againft the rigours of the fea* 

 fon ; and efpecially to thofe who cannot keep 

 in continual motion. The penetrating cold of 

 the fea can hardly be kept off by any thing 

 elfe than furrs. The msft common cloathing of 

 our lailors about this time are fheep-lkins, 

 which are bought of the Danes in the Sound; 

 and are faid to be lb well prepared, that they 

 do not -lofe their foftnefs even if they are 

 worn in the heavieft ra-ins and fnow. I ihould 



think 



