1800.) 
than any. After oun recovery from this 
difagreeable ftate, fome of us {pent our 
time in walking upon the deck, others in 
reading, and others in fleeping. | Many 
often concluded the day with a rubber at 
whift. It was fometimes an amufement 
to watch the porpoifes and dolphins, and 
to obferve the dexterity of a black failor 
on board, in darting his. harpoon into 
them. Onone day, he took two porpoifes 
in this manner; the fkin of which was 
‘boiled for the fake of the oil, and part of 
the flefh for food. To the failors, after 
eating fo much falt beef, it was no unac- 
ceptable change; but our appetites were 
f{carcely prepared for it. The captain 
had laid in for the cabin paflengers a con- 
fiderable number of ducks and fowls, 4pigs, 
fome dozens of bullocks’ tongues, feveral 
hams, corned beef, pork, and pickled tripe 
which was very good, and a quantity of 
{plit peas, rice, flour, and currants, Peas 
foup, and puddings of rice and flour, we 
found to be as agreeable food as any; for 
the fmoke would not admit of our fowls 
being roafted in any other manner than in 
the oven. I found the advantage of adopt- 
ing Dr. Franklin’s plan of laying in a little 
bread cut into flices and baked over again 
inthe oven. ‘This bread kept juft as well 
as fea-bifcuits, and was, to my tafte, much 
more agreeable. When foaked in chocolate, 
it made a very agreeable breakfaft. It was 
very fortunate for me, that I took a little 
chocolate, as for want of milk I could drink 
neither tea nor coffee without being fick. 
Sometimes we breakfafted upon tapioca, 
which with a little wine and fugar is‘agree- 
able and nutritious food ; and fo likewife 
is {aloup-powder, half a pound of which 
will go a great way: it is prepared like 
water-gruel. Every perfon who takes a 
voyage will find it very agreeable to have 
a little ftock of raifins, prunes, lemons, 
oranges, and apples; and, though it is 
the captain’s place to have plenty of porter, 
cyder, fugar, and eggs, yet it may be as 
well to provide againit a poffible defici- 
ency of his ftock. Sugar, indeed, would 
be found very valuable in cafe of a want 
of provifions. Portable foup is, in this 
view, a very good article to take, as a 
pound would fuftain a man mayy days. 
We had every reafon to think well of our 
captain, and to be pleafed with the pro- 
vihion he had made for us ; but the fteer- 
age paffengers exprefled great diffatisfac- 
tion. I believe, however, he fulfilled his 
engagement with them; and on fome voy- 
ages he probably fared no better himfelf, 
But a continual run of falt provifions does 
not fuit the qualmifh ftomachs of perions 
. Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. , rig 
unaccuftomed to the fea. I fhould, there-~ 
fore, by all means recommend it to perfons 
intending ta go in the ficerage to provide 
for themlelves, Whether they can come 
fo cheap upon that plan, I do not know 3 
but I am fure they can come comfortably 
uponnoother. A young man, who came 
in the fteerage with us, paid rol.; a per- 
fon, who came with his wife and five chil. 
‘dren, the eldeft of whom was ten, and the 
youngelt two years old, paid for the whole 
421.5; though, if he had been ready to go 
in. February, a captain from Liverpool 
would have taken them, and found every 
thing for them as fteerage paflengers, for 
twenty-fix guineas. He mentioned to me 
a friend of his, who lately went from Li- 
verpool as a cabin paflenger, having pro- 
vifion found him by the captain, and paid 

no more than fifteen guineas. Mr. 
had an orphan boy of ten years old, froma 
the Birmingham workhoule, whom he took 
in the fteerage, and. paid five guineas for 
him, His mafter was allowed to give 
him, now and then, a little provifion from 
the cabin. All the paflengers, whether in 
the cabin or fteerage, found their own beds 
and bedding. What would be charged to 
ficerage paffengers who found their own 
provilions, I cannot fay: the captain told 
me, that that they were taken from Ire- 
land for three guineas ; in which cafe they 
had nothing but bare thip-room, and pro- 
vided their own meat, water, bedding, 
cooking-utenfils, and every thing. Any 
mafter of a fhip, who takes perfons upon 
this plan, will expe& them to layin pro- 
vifions for three months: forif the winds 
fhould be contrary, humanity would throw 
them upon him for fubfittence. But, on 
the other hand, they ought to itipulate ta 
have the liberty of taking on fhore with 
them what provifions may be left. It is 
not to be expected, that a captain will al- 
low room enough to take water for wafhs 
ing: but Windfer foap will make a lather 
in falt-water; and, I am told, Caftile 
foap ‘will do the fame: but they are both 
dear, and I have feen no. fufficient proof 
of their eficacy. A check fhirt will be 
found very convenient to thofe who have 
not a fufficient change of linen, and a 
jacket and trow/fers of blue baize, or any 
other dark-coloured cloth, are very conves 
nient for going up and down the fteps, and 
for preventing better cloaths from being. 
injured by the pitch, when fitting upon 
deck. A pair of common trowfers may 
be bought at the fhops in fea port towns 
for four or five fhillings. Nothing is of 
more importance on fhip-board, than hay- 
ing the apartments well aired. The bede 






