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fea never went over our cabin, and but once 

 over the deck, and that was only in a lwell. 

 The weather indeed was (o clear, that a 

 great number of the Germans on board flept 

 on the deck. The cabin windows needed 

 not the mutters. All thefe are circum- 

 ftances which {how the uncommon good- 

 nefs of the weather. 



Captain Law/on s civility increafed the 

 pleafure of the voyage. For he mewed me 

 all the friendfhip, that he could have fhewn 

 to any of his relations. 



As foon as we were come to the town, 

 and had call: anchor, many of the inhabi- 

 tants came on board, to enquire for Letters. 

 They took all thofe which they could car- 

 ry, either for themfelves or for their friends. 

 Thofe, which remained, the captain or- 

 dered to be carried on more, and to be 

 brought into a corTee-houfe, where every 

 body could make enquiry for them, and by 

 this means he was rid of the trouble of de- 

 livering them himfelf. I afterwards went 

 on more with him. But before he went, 

 he ftrictly charged the fecond mate, to let 

 no one of the German refugees out of the 

 fhip, unlefs he paid for his pafTage, or 

 fome body elfe paid for him, or bought 

 him. 



On my leaving London I received letters 



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