
          once been sea-sick, tho occasionally
 qualmish during the first four days.
 We are now 620 miles out of Liverpool,
 & hope to arrive there on Monday, perhaps
 to dinner. We are, in all, about 160 souls
 on board, of whom 116 are under the captain's
 command. We seldom muster above 30 to
 dinner-- all gentlemen (except one) & British
 Subjets (except two). There are some 5 or 6 
 Lady passengers below; in fact, the voyage
 has been too rough for ladies. On Sunday
 the Admiralty Mail Officer, read the
 English Church Liturgy & a Sermon. We
 mustered some 70 or 80. There are 5
 regular meals set out, daily, & I really
 never saw so much eating & drinking
 going on, in my life. I am astonished
 at the excellence & abundance of the
 provision. We have a Carte every day
 & people call for the most-out-of-the-way
 things, continually. In fact, the first-rate
 Hotels do not set out better tables. Soups, 
 of sorts, Fish Do. [Ditto], almost every kind of fowl,
 with joints of every kind of meat, roasted &
 boiled, with most abundant [made?] dishes, 
 pastry & desert [i.e. dessert], are our daily fare! I,
 for my part, take only breakfast & dinner,
 but am, perhaps, the most abstemious person in

        