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Riders. As the evil was without a remedy,! 

 battened below, and, keeping on my clothes 

 and fhoes, tumbled in upon the bare boards I 

 tad left, cracking numbers of cockroaches, and 

 other infe&s in my fall ; for the whole multi- 

 tude of creeping things feemed to have met 

 in coagrefs in the birth, not expe&ing my re- 

 turn ; and in the alarm of fudden interruption 

 feme were crufhed, while the others paced and 

 fcrambled their way over my perfon, even in 

 greater droves than before. 



The rain continued to fall, and from all 

 the paffengers again crowding into the cabin, 

 we were clofe-ftowed in confinedand offenfive 

 heat, and paffed another fadly wretched night : 

 which to me was more diftrefling than the 

 former, on account of my cold being fome- 

 what relieved, and my olfa&ory powers in a 

 -flight degree reftored. How anxioufly did I 

 wifii to place an additional feather in the wing 

 of rime — how pray, ere the night had well 

 commenced, that morning would again ap- 

 pear S 



The few hours abfence of light feemed 

 quite an age ; for, annoyed and reftlefs as I was, 



