274 



confident with the uncertainties to which I 

 am always doomed, whenever my perfon is 

 entrufted to the fickle ocean, this fhort paf- 

 fage,from a multitude of adverfe circumftances, 

 was extended to a fadly tedious voyage ; and, 

 in many refpe&s, the moft comfortlefs and 

 difagreeable I have known. Inftead of a. few 

 hours only, we were four long days at fea. 

 A minute detail of the progrefs of each fuc- 

 ceflive day may, perhaps, be as tedious to you 

 as the voyage has been to me : yet, to fay s 

 merely, that we were four days making a 

 paflage of only a few leagues, would convey 

 to you no idea of the extreme difcomfort, and 

 the various and multiplied annoyances to 

 which I was expofed. Let me, therefore, 

 give you the particulars in my own way, 

 and, if it feemeth meet, you may take as many 

 days to read the hiftory of the voyage as we 

 did to make it ; and then if you pleafe, you 

 may commit it, as I would gladly have done 

 the vefFel in which it was written .... to 

 the flames. 



''. ' . mj >i ' [I - i ■ ' I) ii 



At eight o'clock on the morning of the 

 26th inft., I embarked on board the above 

 floop to proceed from Fort William Frederic, 



