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fea never went over our cabin, and but once 

 over the deck, and that was only in a fwell. 

 The weather indeed was fo clear, that a 

 great number of the Germans on board flept 

 on the deck. The cabin windows needed 

 not the (butters. All thefe are circum- 

 ftances which ihow the uncommon good- 

 nefs of the weather. 



Captain Law/on s civility increafed the 

 pleafure of the voyage. For he fhewed me 

 all the friendfhip, that he could have (hewn 

 to any of his relations. 



As foon as we were come to the town, 

 and had caft anchor, many of the inhabi- 

 tants came onboard, to enquire for Letters. 

 They took all thofe which they could car- 

 ry, either for themfelves or for their friends. 

 Thofe, which remained, the captain or- 

 dered to be carried on (hore, and to be 

 brought into a coffee-houfe, where every 

 body could make enquiry for them, and by 

 this means he was rid of the trouble of de- 

 livering them himfelf. I afterwards went 

 on. (hore with him. But before he went, 

 he ftridrly charged the fecond mate, to let 

 no one of the German refugees out of the 

 (hip, unlefs he paid for his pa(rage, or 

 fome body elfe paid for him, or bought 

 him. 



Om my leaving London I received letters 



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