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trifles in your ears, to the exclufion of more 

 immediate, or more important fubjeds: let 

 me, therefore, return with you to the UlyflTes, 

 and tell you, that upon reaching the (hip, we 

 had fo anxioufly looked for, we were re- 

 ceived c.s people unknown and unregarded — 

 conduced into a large w^ard-room, ftrewed 

 with various kinds of lumber, and there left, 

 as in a v*rilderners. No births had been pre- 

 pared, nor any kind of arrangement made 

 for our accommodation. Not a cot was flung ; 

 nor any fleeping place allotted. The ward- 

 room was open to all, and was to ferve for the 

 whole of the paflTengers. We were turned 

 in loofe, wiih fix or eight other perfons, and 

 foon found ourfelves to be, only, individuals 

 of the general herd — the whole flock being 

 left, at large, like iheep in a common fold. 



The vefle! is commanded by an officer 

 of the navy, and it was no part of hia duty 

 to prepare accommodations for paflengers he 

 neither knew nor expeded. She is one 

 of the old forty-four gun frigates, and carries 

 fome of her guns as an armed tranfport. Had 

 our Slip been a common tranfport, or a mer- 



