The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man returned with moll of the articles I fent for, and I now thought myfelf in a condition of living a week on my own provisions. I therefore ordered my own dinner, which I wanted no¬ thing but a cook to drefs, and a proper • fire to drefs it at but thofe were not to be had, nor, indeed, any addition to my roaft mutton, except the pleafure of the captain’s company, with that of the other paffengers; for my wife continued the whole day in a ftate of dozing ; and my other females, whofe ficknefs did not abate by the rolling of the Ship at . anchor, feemed more inclined to empty their Stomachs than to fill them. Thus I pafs’d the whole day (except about an hour at dinner) by myfelf, and the evening concluded with the captain, as the preceding one had done : one com¬ fortable piece of news he commu nicated to me, which was, that he had no doubt of a profperous wind in the morn¬ ing $ but as he did not divulge the reafons of this confidence, and as I faw none myfelf, befides the wind being diredtly oppofite*