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arrival, and the merciful deliverance I had hitely 

 received from his hands. I heard a most excellent 

 sermon on Patience; after which I dined with Mr. 

 Othwell, who is at the head of the Customs here. 

 On Wednesday I went to Cork to get some money 

 from Mr. Jasper Lucas, merchant at that place, 

 and to settle a credit for my ship with him. I re- 

 turned the next day; and late the following night 

 embarked on board the George Privateer of Bris- 

 tol, commanded l)y captain John ]\lajor, a gentle- 

 man like young man, who very politely offered me 

 a passage for myself and ]\Irs. Selby, to Bristol. 

 He had returned from a six months cruise, in 

 which he had taken only one Spanish ship, l)ound 

 from Cadiz to the Havanah. Early the next morn- 

 ing we sailed with a fair wind at south-west, and 

 pleasant weather; but the wind kept creeping 

 forward until we were forced to haul the bow- 

 lines; and as we did not make a sufficient allow- 

 aivo for the indraught of the tide into St. George's 

 Channel ; at two the next morning, we discovered 

 the light of the Smalls on our weather bow. The 

 consequence was, that for the remainder of that 

 day, and all the next night, we were tossed about 

 ])y a hard gale of wind in St. George's channel; 

 but, instead (^f repining at our fate, we liad great 

 cause to icjoicc; for had we got into Bristol (1ian- 

 nel thai iiiiihl, we iiiiisl li<-i\-e been cast away on 

 the Welsh coast. At day-break the following 

 moniing, we saw land ahead and to leewai'd, which 

 we sii|)posed was Bai'sey Island, and the land ad- 

 joining; and that consecjuently we were imljayed 



