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layed purchafing our meat, breads and other 

 freOx provifions, until we fliould be certain 

 that the fhip, in which we were to make the 

 voyage, was arrived. Eat, fhould we proceed 

 to fea, immediately, and the voyage be at all 

 protraded, we (hall be reduced, by this ne-* 

 gled, to fait food, and the fhlp's allowance ; 

 for, in the general fcramble, we were unable 

 to obtain what we wifhed, and were com- 

 pelled to repair on board with a very de- 

 ficient fupply. 



All the butchers' and bakers* (hops were 

 quickly emptied. Not a loaf, nor a bit of meat) 

 not even a carrot, nor a cabbage remained, and 

 many went empty away. Neither porters 

 nor fervants were required, but every one, 

 who was iuccefsful enough to put his hand 

 upon any provifions, gladly became the 

 bearer of his own load. To fliew you the 

 extremity to which we were reduced, I may 

 tell you that our party fl:opped a man, upon 

 the fl:reet, who was carrying home a large 

 giblet pie, hot from the oven, which we 

 tempted him to let us take on board, by of- 

 fering, for the pie and the difli, more than 



