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afternoon with Captain Barrow, in a handsome tent-boat, 

 rowed by six negroes, and the ship's yawl followed with a 

 load of grass for the horses, which was no doubt very accept- 

 able to them. 



Let him who is about to set sail for the West Indies, be tho- 

 roughly aware that his voyage may endure three months, that 

 he is likely to incur every variety of climate, that the fresh 

 water on board is too precious to be squandered on the wash- 

 ing of linen, and that stores, which a captain thinks luxurious, 

 pass with the passenger for hard fare. Let him therefore be 

 provided with half a dozen checked shirts, and as many black 

 silk cravats, both which may be worn long without looking 

 dirty. If the north-east wind blows in the channel, he will 

 be glad of cloth pantaloons and a warm jacket, thick boots and 

 a stout great coat; and with all this wrapping, when he sits still 

 in the long boat, his teeth will chatter and his thighs shiver. 

 On the contrary, when he approaches the tropics, he will 

 want nankeen trowsers, fine cotton shirts, silk stockings, 

 cloaths light, airy, large, a chip hat, and loose yellow slip- 

 pers. In the shade of the sail he will complain of the heat of 

 the wind, and were it not for the sharks below, would ask to 

 be towed through the water at a rope's end. The passenger 

 who aspires to be comfortable at the latter part of the voyage, 

 does well to take out two or three dozen fine shirts of cotton 

 twist, as it absorbs the perspiration better than linen, as many 



