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refpe&ing our own country. Having now been abfent i 779 . 
three years, we had flattered ourfelves with the certainty , 
of receiving intelligence from Major Behm, which could 
not fail of being interefting; and I cannot exprefs the dif- 
appointment we felt, on finding, that he had no news to 
communicate of a much later date than that of our depar¬ 
ture from England. 
About feven o’clock, the Commander, conceiving we 
might be fatigued with our journey, and defirous of taking 
fome repofe, begged he might conduct us to our lodgings. 
It was in vain that we protefted againft a compliment 
which we had certainly no title to expect, but that of being 
Grangers; a circumftance which feemed, in the opinion of 
this generous Livonian, to counterbalance every other con- 
fideration. In our way, we paffed by two guard-houfes, 
where the men were turned out under arms, in compliment 
to Captain Gore; and were afterward brought to a very neat 
and decent houfe, which the Major gave us to underhand 
was to be our refidence, during our hay. Two fentinels 
were potted at the door; and in a houfe adjoining, there 
was a ferjeant’s guard. Having fhewn us into our apart¬ 
ments, the Major took his leave, with a promife to fee us 
the next day; and we were left to find out, at our leifure, all 
the conveniencies that he had moft amply provided for us. 
A foldier, called a putproperfckack , whofe rank is between 
that of a ferjeant and corporal, along with our fellow-tra¬ 
veller Port, were appointed to be our male domeftics; be- 
fides whom, there was a houfe-keeper and a cook, who had 
orders to obey Port’s directions in drefling us a fupper, ac¬ 
cording to our own mode of cookery. We received many 
civil meffages, in the courfe of the evening, from the prin¬ 
cipal people of the town, purporting, that they would not 
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