86 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1838, 
Evening. — This short English day has been occu- 
pied in good part in getting my luggage from the ship 
and through the custom house. I sallied out a little 
past nine in the morning; went first of all to a tailor 
and ordered a coat (which is to be finished and de- 
livered this evening); then dispatched my letters for 
home by the United States; found our own ship just 
going into dock (what docks they are! but as we 
have always plenty of water we do not so much need 
them in New York); arranged my luggage, and then 
proceeded all hands to the custom house (a large 
new building, rather imposing in appearance), where 
I was detained until past three o’clock. I had fifteen 
pounds of books to pay duty upon (fifteen shillings), 
and nothing to complain of as to the manner of the 
examination. . . . After dinner, visited the market, 
which on Saturday evening is full and busy. It is 
about twice the size of all the New York markets put 
together, and a sight well worth seeing. J examined 
everything scrutinizingly, but will not trouble you 
with my observations. .. . 
Sunday evening, December 2. — Went this morn- 
ing to the chapel of the school for the blind. The 
chanting and singing was very fine, and the sight an 
interesting one. But to me the solemnity of the 
chanted ; heard a tolerable sermon. In the evening 
heard Dr. Raffles! His chapel is a gloomy structure 
externally, but very neat and comfortable within. Dr. 
R. preached the first of a series of discourses “ On the 
most remarkable events in the early history of the 
Israelites,” commencing with the bondage in Egypt, 
1 Dr. Thomas Raffles; a distinguished Congregational clergyman 
in Liverpool rae 1812 to 1863. 
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