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Bombay. He lost his health and spirits during the voyage, and 

 on reaching our destined port was no longer the same character we 

 had known in England. From his forge tfulncss and inattention 

 I remained on board until the day after the captain and every other 

 passenger had left the ship, to enjoy the pleasures of land, after a 

 voyage of eleven months. While the officers and men were busily 

 employed in unloading the cargo, I found myself a solitary, deserted 

 being, without a letter to offer, or the knowledge of a single indi- 

 vidual on the island. 



Having occasionally heard my guardian mention the name of 

 a gentleman with whom he intended to reside until the ship sailed 

 from Bombay to Mocha, on landing I inquired for his house, and 

 was told that a noble colonnade overlooking the sea, under which 

 I then stood, formed a part of his mansion. With an anxious heart 

 and trembling steps I ventured up a broad flight of stairs leading 

 to this colonnade, from whence I saw the family sitting at their 

 dessert in a large saloon to which it opened. My guardian gave 

 me a sort of reprimand for the intrusion, but introduced me as a 

 young gentleman, with the appointment of a writer, who had left 

 England under his protection, and whom he meant to have sent 

 for from the ship when he had provided a lodging. His friend 

 pitied my situation, and felt for the cool reception of a bashful youth 

 from one who had promised to extend over him the wings of paren- 

 tal love. If the reception of one was cool, that of the other was 

 truly warm : he then look me by the hand, and for forty years 

 never let it go; he immediately introduced me to his wife and 

 family, encouraged me by the kindest attention, supplied me with 

 money, and told me to consider his house as my own. So I ever 



