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were impoffible to defcribe the fenfations I 

 experienced upon difcovering the fcene which 

 now opened to me. The execrable neft in 

 which I was lying was not (imply crowded 

 and confined, beyond all that the annoyances 

 I had felt had led me to fufpe<3, but it was a 

 tout enfembk of naftinefs, that defies all de-» 

 fcription. Words can only convey to you, a 

 faint idea of the dirty and abominable place, 

 in which, for four long days, fick and without 

 food, I had to live. 



This horrid cell, called a cabin, was only 

 fix feet long, feven wide, and four in depth; 

 and was further contracted to lefs than half 

 its dimenfion, by the loofe old chefts, and 

 worm-eaten coffers landing on the deck be- 

 low; the thick fheets of cobwebs fufpended 

 from the deck above; and the crowd of filthy 

 ornaments hanging on all fides. To fit or to 

 ftand appeared impoffible ; fcarcely, indeed, 

 was there room to lie down, or to breathe. 

 Not only was I fhocked to fee the noxious 

 den I was in, but was puzzled to conje&ure 

 how I could have fleered my paflage to the 

 birth, where I was lying. Both the entrance 

 to the cabin, and the path I had travelled to 

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