A VOYAGE TO 
It is very remarkable, that they had not feen the fhip the 
preceding day, when we came to anchor in the bay, nor 
indeed this morning, till our boats were pretty near the ice. 
The panic with which the difcovery had druck them, we 
found, had been very conliderable. The garrifon was im¬ 
mediately put under arms. Two fmall field-pieces were 
placed at the entrance of the Commander’s houfe, and 
pointed toward our boats; and fliot, powder, and lighted 
matches were all ready at hand. 
The officer, in whofe houfe we were at prefent entertain¬ 
ed, was a Serjeant, and the Commander of the oftr&g. No¬ 
thing could exceed the kindnefs and hofpitality of his beha¬ 
viour, after he recovered from the alarm occafioned by our 
arrival. We found the houfe infufferably hot, but exceed¬ 
ingly neat and clean. After I had changed my clothes, 
which the Serjeant’s civility enabled me to do, by furnidl¬ 
ing me with a complete fuit of his own, we were invited to 
fit down to dinner, which I have no doubt was the bed he 
could procure; and, confidering the fhortnefs of time he 
had to provide it, was managed with fome ingenuity. As 
there was] not time to prepare foup and bouilli , we had, in 
their dead, fome cold beef diced, with hot water poured 
over it. We had next a large bird roaded, of a fpecies with 
which I was unacquainted, but of a very excellent tade. 
After having eaten a part of this, it was taken off, and we 
were ferved with ddi dreffed two different ways ; and, foon 
after, the bird again made its appearance, in favory and 
fweet pates. Our liquor, of which I fhall have to fpeak 
hereafter, was of the kind called by the Ruffians quafs , and 
was much the word part of the entertainment. The Ser¬ 
jeant’s wife brought in feveral of the difhes herfelf, and was 
not permitted to dt down at table. Haying dnidied our re- 
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