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ficknefs and want of reft, my fenfe of feeling 

 was alfo become torpid ; fo that the ear was the 

 only organ which retained its full power of re- 

 ceiving offenfive impreffions. Situated as I 

 was, all this might be confidered as fortunate, 

 for I was compelled to remain throughout the 

 remainder of the day, either violently reaching, 

 or fickly viewing the wretched and difguft- 

 ing fcene around me. 



Before evening poor old Mr. Serjeant, 

 one of my fellow paffengers, was likewife feiz- 

 ed with ficknefs, and compelled to feek relief 

 by reclining his head in the oppofite birth of 

 the cabin. I had now a companion in my 

 affliction, but this brought no alleviation to my 

 fufferings. — I felt that this old gentleman, who 

 poffefled a large property and all the comforts 

 of an opulent eftate, might be lefs prepared 

 than myfelf, to encounter the hardfhips and 

 annoyances we were expofed to ; and this idea, 

 in no degree, contributed to my relief. In 

 painful fympathy we mutually bewailed each 

 other's diftrefs, looking with anxious hope to 

 a lefs oSenfive birth upon the open deck, when 

 the fun fhould take his leave for the night. 



