Chap. 48.] at Li/Ion. 367 



creature afked me, in the utmoft agony, if I did not 

 think that the world was at an end ; at the fame time 

 Ihe complained of being choaked, and begged for 

 God's fake I would procure her a little drink ; upon 

 this I went to a clofet where I kept a large jar with 

 water (which you know is fometimes a pretty fcarce 

 commodity in Li(bon) but finding it broken in pieces, I 

 told her me mud not now think of quenching her thirft, 

 but faving her life, as the hbufe was juft falling on our 

 heads, and if a fecond mock came, would certainly 

 bury us both ; I bade her take hold of my arm, and 

 that I would endeavour to bring her into fome place 

 of fecurity. 



c I mall always look upon it as a particular provi- 

 dence, that I happened on this occafion to be undreff- 

 ed, for had I drefled myfelf, as I propofed, when I got 

 out of bed, in order to breakfaft with a friend, I mould, 

 in all probability, have run into the ilreet at the be- 

 ginning of the mock, as the reft of the peopie in the 

 houfe did, and confequently have had my brains darned 

 out, as every one of them had -, however, the immi- 

 nent danger I was in did not hinder me from confider- 

 ing that my prefent drefs, only a gown and flippers, 

 would render my getting over the ruins almolt im- 

 practicable : I had, therefore, ftill prefence of mind 

 enough left to put on a pair of fhoes and a coat, the 

 firft that came in my way, which was every thing I 

 faved, and in this drefs I hurried down flairs, the 

 woman with me, holding by my arm, and made di- 

 rectly to that end of the ftreet which opens to the 

 Tagus, but finding t'e paflage this way entirely blocked 

 up with the fallen houfes to the height of their fecond 

 (lories, I turned back to the other end which led into 

 the main ftreet (the common thoroughfare to the pa- 

 lace) and having helped the woman over a vaft heap 



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