CHAP, i.] Early Recollections. 27 



we were on the following Saturday conveyed in a small 

 open vessel from the quay at Helvotsluis on a stormy sea, to 

 the packet boat, which lay two miles distant at anchor ; from 

 which we were again obliged to go in an open boat to be 

 set ashore, or rather thrown like balls by two English sailors, 

 on the coast of Yarmouth.* For the vessel was almost a 

 wreck, without a main and another of its masts. 



" After having crawled to one of a row of neat low houses, 

 we found the party previously arrived from the ship devour- 

 ing their breakfast ; several clean-dressed women employed 

 in cutting bread and butter (from fine wheaten loaves) as 

 fast as ever they could. One of them went upstairs with 

 me to help me to put on my clothes, and after taking some 

 tea we mounted some sort of a cart to bring us to the next 

 place where diligences going to London would pass. But 

 we had hardly gone a quarter of an English mile when the 

 horse, which was not used to go in what they called the 

 shafts, ran away with us, overturning the cart with trunk and 

 passengers. My brother, another person, and myself all 

 throwing themselves out, I flying into a dry ditch. We all 

 came off however, with only the fright, owing to the assist- 

 ance of a gentleman who, with his servant, was accom- 

 panying us on horseback. These persons had come in the 

 packet with us, and it was settled not to part till in 

 London, where we arrived at noon on the 26th at an inn 

 in the City. Here we remained till the evening of the 

 27th. My brother having business at the West-end of 

 the town, left, me under the care of our fellow travellers ; 

 but after his return, in the evening when the shops were 

 lighted up, we went to see all that was to be seen in that 

 part of London, of which I only remember the opticians' 

 shops, for I do not think we stopped at any other. 



* The other version calls it " from Helvot to Harrige " = Harwich. 



