manner without food or fupport, having ohlf 

 the repetition of bad plantains every day for 

 breakfaft, for dinner, and for fupper. - 



I was met at the water's edge by Mr. 

 Mackie, the a&ing furgeon of the garrifon, 

 who kindly condu&ed me to an apartment, 

 where I could caft off my fea garments, and 

 fubmit my perfon to the purifying procefs of 

 a complete ablution. Few, perhaps, would 

 have wifhed for my birth on board the wretch- 

 ed Voltigeur- — but all might have envied me 

 the luxury of my bath on leaving it ! I cannot 

 tell you how delightful — how 7 grateful, it was ! 

 The adult baptifm of the rnoft devoted bigot 

 could not be more enchanting. It was in 

 truth the water of holinefs. It refrefhed, it 

 animated, — nay, infpired me ! I felt new life, 



and certainly was a very different 



being I On landing I had been fick and com- 

 fortlefs, with my head dizzy, my knees tremb- 

 ling, and my whole frame enfeebled : but, 

 after my ablution, I felt born a-new ; my 

 ftrength returned ; I was no longer fick ; a 

 general glow of health and frefhnefs was dif- 

 fufed over me, and I became the creature 

 of • , .a new world ! 



