208 ARRIVE IN THE THAMES. 



and every storm of trial raised by man in a 

 fallen and disordered world, branded with so 

 many marks of its Creators displeasure. 



We were prevented from meeting in the 

 cabin, for divine service, on Sunday the 12th, 

 from its blowing a hard gale, and the violent 

 tossing of the ship. We now experienced a 

 sensible alteration in the weather, as being 

 much milder; and a couple of black wolves 

 and a bear, which we had on board, were evi- 

 dently affected by the change of the atmos- 

 phere, as we were bearing up for the Orkney 

 Isles. On the 15th, we anchored in Stromness 

 harbour, and, leaving this anchorage on the 

 17th, we reached Yarmouth Roads, October 

 the 23d ; and through a kind protecting Pro- 

 vidence, I landed, on the following day, from 

 the ship, in the Thames. 



Since my departure from England, in May 

 1820, to this period of my return, not one acci- 

 dent have I met with, nor have I been called to 

 experience a single day's illness. Though in 

 perils oft by land and by sea, and exposed to 

 threatened dangers of the ice, and of the desert, 

 still my life has been preserved. 



Praised be the Lord God of my salvation ! 



