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ceived no material injury. Our ship- carpenter has 

 always appeared to be the sulkiest and surliest of 

 sea-bears : yet, on the day of Edward's accident, 

 he passed every minute that he could command 

 by the side of his sofa, kneeling, and praying, and 

 watching him as if he had been his son ; and every 

 now and then wiping away his " own tears'* with the 

 dirtiest of all possible pocket-handkerchiefs. So 

 that what Goldsmith said of Dr. Johnson may be 

 applied to this old man : " He has nothing of a 

 bear but his skin." After tearing every sail in the 

 ship into shivers, and being as disagreeable as ever 

 it could be, the gale has at length abated. Yester- 

 day it was a storm, and we were going to Ireland, 

 Lisbon, Brest — in short, every where except to 

 England ; to-day, it is a dead calm, and we are 

 going nowhere at all. 



April 26. (Sunday.) 



The gale has returned with increased violence, 

 and we are once more at our old trade of dead 

 lights ; however, for this time, the wind, at least, 

 is in our favour. 



April 28. 



The wounded mate is so much recovered as to 

 come upon deck for a few hours to-day, and may 

 now be considered as completely out of danger; 

 although Dr. Ashman is positive (from his dif- 

 ficulty of breathing at first, and the subsequent 



