XIV GEOFFREY GAMBADO TO 



ting neither — but at length efpying fome- 

 thing like an ifland unknown -, it is perhaps 

 more like an owzle than any one laid down 

 in the charts. They do ad:ually difcover, 

 however, that the natives will not let them go 

 afliore, and that they mufl: return as v/ife as 

 they came. They difcover that they have 

 little left to eat, and lefs to drink ; that they 

 muft live by fucking each others fhirts for half 

 a year, arrive miraculoufly at home, and write 

 a book about it. 



My Correfpondents are of a different flamp ; 

 they difcover that there is much left unfound 

 out at home j and feem to be meritorioufly 

 employed in confequence. Going abroad, with 

 them, I take to be only going out of the 

 houfe and feeing the world, a laudable ride 

 of a dozen miles. This opinion of feeing the 

 world tempts me to digrefs a little. My apo- 

 thecary, a man of knowledge and judgment, 

 but who, no mxore than myfelf, had ever been 

 above fix miles from home, being obliged 

 to vifit a patient at the diftance of twenty, 

 actually returned in amazement, and affurcd 



me. 



