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moderate wind, with good weather till we got into 

 soundings, which w^as on the fifth of December, 

 when the wind came to the eastw^ard. On the 

 sixth came on a smart gale, which continued all 

 the next day, and reduced us to our courses. At 

 night we were so near being run down by a stout 

 snow, that our jib-boom touched her tafferel as 

 she passed us; for she had mistaken the tack 

 which we were upon. The wind came round again 

 on the tenth, and we got sight of Scilly that morn- 

 ing. We saw the Lizard in the afternoon, got into 

 the Downs on the night of the twelfth, and in the 

 afternoon of the fourteenth came to an anchor at 

 Cherry Garden Stairs. I landed immediately, and 

 hastened to George's Coffee-house, where I aston- 

 ished several of my old friends, by the great quan- 

 tity of beef-steakes which I ate to my dinner; for 

 I had not had one good meal since I left Ranger 

 Lodge. 



Fearing lest Noozelliack should take the small 

 pox in the natural way, I determined to have him 

 inoculated.^ For this purpose I went to Knights- 

 bridge the next morning, and waited on Mr. Sut- 

 ton; to whom I told what had happened to those 

 Indians I was carrying back in the spring, and 

 desired him to receive the boy into his own house 

 and take all possible care of him ; which he readily 

 consented to do. I left the boy with Mr. Sutton 

 on the seventeenth, and when he thought he had 



^ Inoculation for smallpox was introduced in Europe from the East 

 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and was first performed in London 

 in 1721. About 1800 it was superseded by vaccination. 



