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tion, and chaining our thoughts to a Angle 

 Jink, the heavy languor of difappointed expec- 

 tation lengthened a moil wearifome day into 

 more than a tedious week ! 



The poor captain, grown even more im- 

 patient than myfelf, became quite outrageous, 

 and from no fatisfa&ory caufe explaining to 

 liis mind the detention of the boat, he fought 

 not to reftrain his rage, but kicked and (lamp-* 

 ed upon the deck, pouring forth dreadful fea 

 oaths, in the full coarfenefs of broad Barba* 

 does dialed:, and with all the emphafis of un- 

 bounded execration. His curfes were really 

 tremendous. They were unlike all that had 

 before met my ear ; and were rendered doubly 

 odious by the drawling accent ix\ which they 

 were pronounced, 



Notwithitanding my determination to 

 meet the rough and the fmooth of life as they 

 fiball chance to fall in my path, this! confefs 

 was a day of trial to my philofophy. Being 

 without food and drink, without fociety, or 

 any other agrement, I was not able to beguile 

 the flothful hours, either by converfation or 

 |h$ pleafures of the table 3 and was even difi* 



