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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    gained great honour, having diftin- guiihed his bravery in fome very warm engagemet s, for which he had juftly received pu! lie thanks; and from hence he derived a nyht of hoilfing the mi¬ litary ornament of a cockade over the button of his hat, and of wearing a fword of no ordinary length. Now, as I faw myfelf in danger from thefe unavoidable delays, and as the wind had been long nefted, as it were, in the fouth-weft, where it con- idantly blew hurricanes, I began with great reafon to apprehend hat our voy¬ age might be long, and that my belly, which began already to be much ex¬ tended, would require the water to be let out at a time when no affiftance was at hand ; though, indeed, the captain comforted me with affu ranees, that he had a pretty young fellow on board, who adted as his furgeon, as I found he likewife did as fteward, cook, butler, faiior. In fhort, he had as many offices as Scrub in the play, and went through ; them