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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    having followed the honeft bufinefs of carrying goods and pafiengers for hire many years, did at laid take to evil courfes and turn privateer, in which fer- vice, to ufe his own words, (he receiv¬ ed many dreadful wounds, which he himfelf had felt, as if they had been his own. Thurfday. As the wind did not yef- terday difcover any purpofe of fhifting, and the water in my belly grew trouble- fom, and rendered me (hort-breathed ; I began a fecond time to have appre- henfions of wanting the afiifiance of a trochar, when none was to be found: I therefore concluded to be tapped a- gain, by way of precaution; and ac¬ cordingly I this morning fummoned on board a furgeon from a neighbouring parilli, one whom the captain greatly recommended, and who drd indeed per¬ form his office with much dexterity. He was, I believe like wife, a man of great judgment and knowledge in the profeffioja; but of this I cannot fpeak