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than the former one ; so that from nine dollars their 

 demands sunk to three. We remarked also the sin- 

 gular similarity that seemed to prevail among the 

 natives. I don't think that I could easily have dis- 

 tinguished one face from another. No sooner had 

 we landed than we found ourselves surrounded by a 

 mob of merchants' clerks, who lay in wait for the ship, 

 and tried to entrap each with the cry of " My dear 

 friend, do you clear with us ? " Our captain went to 

 Howden's, and we accompanied him, delivering our 

 letters from Hutchins. We then went to a toler- 

 ably good inn, kept by a man who was educated at 

 Musslebro! After an indifferent dinner, but good 

 claret, we paid our captain the enormous sum of 

 twenty guineas for our passage, to which we added 

 one for the men. 



Mr Howden called before dinner and behaved very 

 civilly. We drank tea with him, and went to the 

 subscription rooms, which are large and commodious. 

 A hundred gentlemen, chiefly merchants, pay ten 

 dollars per annum, and have the liberty of introduc- 

 ing strangers. After lounging in these rooms, seeing 

 the gardens by candle-light, and looking at some 

 billiard-play performed by English sea-officers, we 

 were taken by Howden and his nephew, nicknamed 

 " Caliban," to the subscription news-rooms, where we 

 met a company of British worthies, and had a slang- 

 ish conversation, adapted to the humour of the 

 society. Howden then turned to us, and presented a 

 dreadful account of Paul's customs about dress, pass- 



