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the loudest of all possible shrieks proceeding from 

 a boat lying near her : and who should prove to 

 be the complainant, but my former acquaintance, 

 the despairing pig, He had recovered his voice to 

 protest against entering the ship : I had already de- 

 clared against climbing up the accommodation 

 ladder; the pig had precisely the very same objec- 

 tion. So a soi-disant chair, being a broken bucket, 

 was let down for us, and the pig and myself entered 

 the vessel by the same conveyance ; only pig had 

 the precedence, and was hoisted up first. The 

 ship proceeded three miles, and then the darkness 

 obliged us to come to an anchor. There are only 



two other cabin passengers, a Mr. J and a 



Mr. S ; the latter is a planter in the " May- 

 Day Mountains,'' Jamaica : he wonders, consider- 

 ing how much benefit Great Britain derives from 

 the West Indies, that government is not careful to 

 build more churches in them, and is of opinion, 

 that " hedicating the negroes is the only way 

 to make them appy ; indeed, in his umble 

 hopinion, hedication his hall in hall ! " 



November 11. 

 We sailed at six o'clock, passed through " Nob's 

 Hole," the " Girdler's Hole," and " the Pan" 

 (all very dangerous sands, and particularly the last, 

 where at times we had only one foot water below 

 us), by half past four, and at five came to an anchor 

 in the Queen's Channel. Never having seen any 



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