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fatigue, and anxiety which were the natural 

 effect, and the neceflary fequel of his method 

 of proceeding ; and not, as he infilled, of 



misfortune ! 



He now began to perceive that he was 

 ieft in England, with all his clothes and bag* 

 gage gone to the Weft Indies, and forgetting, 

 for a moment, his prefent difficulties— ^forget- 

 ting the cow, and all around him, he funk into 

 pen five contemplation, upon the various evils 

 which might follow, when he was, fuddenly, 

 roufed by the cry of " a lugger, a lugger, here 

 comes a lugger." It made no part of Mac- — 's 

 character to lofe time in ufelefs bewailings. 

 If a new path prefented itfelf, however rugged 

 or impaffable — if but the flighteft opening 

 occurred, however faint the gleam of light 

 admitted, he, haftily, purfued it, darning, 

 heedlefsly, on to his objed, — Hence on hear- 

 ing that a lugger was in light, fanguine hope 

 again afTumed the form of certainty, and with- 

 out a moment of hefitation, to weigh proba- 

 bilities, he refolved, at all hazards, in defiance 

 of all doubts, and at whatever expence, ta 

 take off the cow in the lugger the moment it 

 reached the fhore. The vcilel was, accord-* 



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