TRAVELS 
m 
that he was faluted in a very familiar manner by the gentlemen 
that palled us in the ftreet, and that all the people, wherever we 
went to enquire for lodgings, anfwered his queftions with the 
grcatefl refped, and apparent readinefs and defire to oblige him, 
l did not well know r what to think of my friend. In the morning 
we were awakened early by a band of military mufic, that did us 
the honours of the place at the door of our bedchamber. Having 
a greater inclination to deep than to hear their performance, we 
gave them fome rix-dollars, and wifhed them a good-morrow: 
but w 7 e w T ere deceived in our calculations; as they found it worth 
their while, they came again two days after to wdfh us good bye. 
But as w r e did not like a continuation of this pra&ice, we fuffered 
them to depart without taking any farther notice of their civility. 
Next day, when we went to prefent fome of our letters of intro- 
dudtion, we w’ere affonifhed to find that all the gentlemen to- 
whom they were addreffed were already apprized of our vifit. 
They were acquainted with the time of our arrival, and with 
what happened to us fince ; they knew in what fort of carriage 
we had come, the route we had taken, where w ; e lodged, who was 
our lackey, what was our drefs, &c. &c. Thefe circumftances 
did not imprefs us with any great idea of the capital of Sweden; 
and we anticipated thofe inconveniencies which are ufually ex¬ 
perienced in a large capital, but w ithout the pleafing freedom of 
living at perfect eafe, and jufl as one pleafes, amidft the obfeurity 
of an immenfe capital. 
CHAPTER 
