69 MEMOIR OF DH WRIGHT; 



half undertook to traverse the mountainous regions of 

 the ancient kingdom of Algarve; but Dr Wright, 

 and the remainder of the party, proposed more pru- 

 dently, if we may judge from the event, to follow the 

 course of the Gnadiana, and engage a coasting vessel 

 to carry them and their baggage to the mouth of the 

 Tagus. Having been thrown upon the Portuguese 

 territory without passports, the provincial authorities 

 refused to recognise them as the subjects of a friendly 

 power ; and those gentlemen who proceeded overland 

 to Lisbon were seriously maltreated in the course of 

 the journey. The coasting party were more fortunate. 

 They dropped down the Guadiana, and proceeded as 

 far as Taro in an open boat. At Taro they rested 

 four days, and having freighted a sloop to carry them 

 to Lisbon, they reached that city in safety on the 21st 

 of December 1780. 



On the 24th. they embarked in the Hampden 

 packet : and. after a pleasant passage, arrived at Fal- 

 mouth on flic 6th of January 1781. 



Dr \Vkk;ht was accompanied, in his Peninsular 

 adventure, by a young gentleman who had resided for 

 some time with his friends in Edinburgh ; but his des- 

 tination being the Island of Madeira, where the Ja- 

 maica Regiment was to have touched in the course of 

 its passage, Dr WRIGHT consented to undertake a 

 charge which probably proved more serious than he at 

 first anticipated. On their arrival in London, how- 

 ever, about the middle of January, they found that an 

 uncle of his protege* had arrived from Madeira, to whom 

 the guardianship of the young traveller was immediate- 



