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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    jg6 A V O Y AGE fpecial order from the providore j and that he himfelf would have been feat to prifon for difobeying it, had he not been protected as the fervant of the captain. He informed me like wife, that the captain had been very induftri- ous to get this order, but that it was then the providore’s hour of ileep, a time when no man, except the king himfelf, durft difturb him. To avoid prolixity, tho’ in a part of my narrative which may be more agree¬ able to my reader than it was to me, the providore having at laft finifhed his nap, difpatched this abfurd matter of form, and gave me leave to come, or rather to be carried, on Ihore. What it was that gave the hr ft hint of this ftrange law is not eafy to guefs. Poffibly, in the infancy of their defec¬ tion, and before their government could be well eftablifhed, they were willing to guard againft the bare poffibility of furprize, of the fuccefs of which bare poffibility