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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    I can trace between them is, the one living by the highway, ereCted his hof- pitality chiefly in favour of land travel¬ lers ; and the other living by the water- ilde, gratifies his humanity by accom¬ modating the wants of the mariner. In the evening our commander re¬ ceived a viiit from a brother captain, who lay wind-bound in the fame har¬ bour. This latter captain was a Swifs. He was then mailer of a veffel bound to Guinea, and had formerly been a privateering, when our own hero was employed in the fame laudable fervice. The ho nelly and freedom of the Swit¬ zer, his vivacity, in which he was in no refpeCt inferior to his near neigh¬ bours the French, the aukward and affedted politenefs, which was likewife of French extraction, mixed with the brutal roughnefs of the Englifh tar (for he had ferved under the colours of this nation, and his crew had been of the fame) made fuch an odd variety, fuch a hotch-potch of character, that I fhould