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ANECDOTES. 



English merchant-ship, some weeks after my 

 recovery, and on passing a cask which was lying 

 upon the deck, I struck it intentionally, but 

 without any particular object. The master, who 

 was an old gentleman with whom I had come from 

 England, and who had been long acquainted 

 with me, said, " Yes, you would not have it.'* 

 I asked him what he meant, to which he replied, 

 " It was for you, but you gave us the slip this 

 time." I did not yet understand him, so he 

 then continued, — " Why, do you think I would 

 have let you remain among these fellows here, 

 who would not have given you Christian burial ? 

 I intended to have taken you home in that 

 puncheon of rum." I was told by one of my 

 medical attendants when I was recovering, that 

 some old maiden ladies, who lived near to where 

 I resided, had frequently pressed him, whilst I 

 was in a dangerous state, to have the Sacrament 

 brought to me, for they were much grieved that 

 I should die without any chance of salvation. 

 An English merchant of Recife asked my par- 

 ticular friend when the funeral was to take 

 place ; and one of the medical men wrote a note 

 to the same person late one night, enquiring 

 whether his attendance on the following morn- 

 ing had been rendered unnecessary. 



As soon as I was well enough to remove, I 

 I took a small cottage at the village of Monteiro, 

 that I might have the advantage of better air 



