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fitiiation I lay in my hammock until the 17th, with Char 

 only a foldier and my black boy to attend me, and . ' 

 without any other friend : ficknefs being univerfal among 

 the new-comers to this country, and every one of our 

 corps having fo much to do to take care of themfelves^ 

 negledt was an inevitable confequence, even among the 

 neareft acquaintance. This, however, is a cenfure which 

 does not apply to the inhabitants, who perhaps are 

 the moft hofpitable people on the globe to Europeans^ 

 Thefe philanthropifts not only fupply the lick with a va- 

 riety of cordials at the fame time, bat crowd their apart- 

 ments with innumerable condolers, who from morning 

 till night continue prefcribing,. infifting, bewailing, and 

 lamenting, friend and ftranger without exception ; and 

 this lafts until the patient becomes delirious, and expires » 

 Such muft inevitably have been my cafe, between the 

 two extremes of negledt and importunity, had it not been 

 for the happy intervention of poor Joanna, who one 

 morning entered my apartment, to my unfpeakable joy 

 and furprizcj, accompanied by one of her lifters. She hi- 

 formed me that flie was acquainted with my forlorn litua- 

 tion ; that if I ftill entertained for her the fame good 

 opinion, her only requeft was, that fhe might wait upon 

 me till I fhould be recovered. I indeed gratefully ac- 

 cepted her offer ; and by her unremitting care and atten- 

 tion had the good fortune fo far to regain my health and 

 fpirits, as to be able, in a few days after^ to take, an airing 

 Ml Mr. Kennedy's carriage. . 



