With feve.ral other gentlemen of the 

 hofpital-ftaff, to whom the fore-cabin was 

 allotted, Mac— was ordered to take his paiTage 

 in the Lord Sheffield ; and feeling both 

 pleafed and proud to be in the fame ihip with 

 the perfon who had the direction of the 

 department, to which he belonged, he was 

 always at hand when any thing occurred,- — 

 always firft to tender either ufeful* or officious 

 services. 



It being an effential comfort to hare 

 plenty of milk on the pafTage, we had pur- 

 chafed a cow to take on board, as the belt 

 method of fee u ring the accommodation j but 

 owing to fome neglect, on fhore, our valued 

 animal had not reached the Lord Sheffield at 

 the time the fignal was made for failing. 

 This was a fad difappointment to us : for, to 

 lofe our cow were a ferious misfortune — - 

 even the apprehenfion of it was matter of 

 much anxiety. We applied to the captain to 

 know how we could proceed with the greater! 

 probability of procuring her ; who, faying 

 that it was not an object for which he could 

 delay the fliip, added that the only chance of 



