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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    he leapt boldly into the water, and, to my great aftonifhment, in a few mi¬ nutes, returned to the fhip, bearing the motionlefs animal in his mouth. Nor was this, I obferved, a matter of fuch great difficulty as it appeared to my ig¬ norance, and poffibly may feem to that of my frefh-water reader : the kitten was now expofed to air and fun on the deck, where its life, of which it re¬ tained no fymptoms, was defpaired of by all. The captain’s humanity, if I mayTo call it, did not fo totally deftroy his philofophy, as to make him yield him- ielf up to afflidion on this melancholy pccafion. Having felt his lofs like a man, he refolved to (hew he could bear it like one 5 and, having declared, he had rather have loft a cafk of rum or brandy, betook himfelf to th re flung at backgammon with the Portuguefe friar, in which innocent amufement they pafled their leifure hours. f4 But