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In this dilemma — unable to decide which 

 might prove the lefTer evil, and almoft finking 

 from the languor produced by naufea and vo- 

 miting, I, at length, refolved to return to the 

 manifold ills of the cabin; but continued at the 

 hatch-way, fupporting a degree of reaching, 

 which almoft inverted my ftomach, while one 

 of the Tailors removed the blankets, and other 

 ofrenfive things, that were in the birth, and 

 fwept and fcrubbed it out, in order to give 

 me the bare boards as a refting place. 



I now drew on a pair of thick fuftiari 

 pantaloons that reached down to my feet 5 

 buckled them faft in my fhoes ; put on a pair of 

 ftrong gloves; covered my head and great 

 part of my face, with my night-cap ; and 

 changing my coat for a loofe morning gown, 

 rolled myfelf up fo as to leave fcarcely more 

 than my nofe acceffible ; and, thus protected, 

 tumbled again into the birth I had quitted,' 

 bidding defiance to the infeds, vermin, aad 

 every annoyance around me. Fortunately 

 my fenfes were not, at this moment, very acute, 

 for I laboured under a fevere catarrh which de- 

 prived me of the faculties of fmelling, and 

 rafting, and almoft robbed me of fight. By 



