INTRODUCTION. 3 



With these expectations I went to Liver- 

 pool ; and employed brokers to charter a 

 ship, which cost me eight hundred and 

 fifty pounds. I then bought the famous 

 race-horses Phenomenon and Cardinal Puff, 

 two blood stallions ; ten blood mares, and 

 four more blood stallions ; a bull and a cow 

 of the Roolright kind, a bull and a cow of 

 the North Devon, a bull and a cow of the 

 no-horned Yorkshire kind, a cow (with two 

 calves, and in calf again) of the Holderness 

 kind ; and five boar and seven sow pigs, of 

 four different kinds. These things being 

 all put on board, I followed them, with my 

 family which consisted of seven, besides 

 two servants to take care of the horses, 

 cattle, &c. 



The first disagreeable thing which occur- 

 red was, the captain found his ship impro- 

 perly loaded ; she wanted ballast : we 

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