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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    this, as few of my readers have not gone into wherries on the Thames, they will eafily be able to form to themfelves an idea. However, by the afiiftance of my friend Mr. Welch, whom I ne¬ ver think or fpeak of but with love and efteem, I conquered this difficulty, as I did afterwards that of afcending the fhip, into which I was hoifted with more eafe by a chair lifted with pul lies. I was foon feated in a great chair in the cabin, to refreffi myfelf after a fatigue which had been more intolerable, in a quarter of a mile’s paffage from my couch to the fhip, than I had before undergone in a land-journey of twelve miles, which I had travelled with the utmoft expedition. This latter fatigue was, perhaps, fo me what heightened by an indignatioa which I could not prevent arffing in my mind. I think, upon my entrance into the boat, I prefented a fpeclacle of the higheft horror. The total lofs of limbs was apparent to all who faw me.