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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    but when he brought her to the boat, at the water*fide, they were informed that the fhip was gone ; for, indeed, fhe had fet out a few minutes after his quitting her; nor did the pilot, who wTc\\ knew the errand on which I had fent my fervant, think fit to wait a .mo¬ ment for his return, or to give me any notice of his letting out. But of all the petty bafhaws, or tur¬ bulent tyrants I ever beheld, this four¬ faced pilot was the word: tempered; for, during the time that he had the guidance of the fhip, which was till we arrived in the Downs, he complied with no one's defires, nor did he give a civil wrord, or3 indeed, a civil look to any on board. The toothdrawer, who, as I faid before, was one of great eminence among her neighbours, refilled to fol¬ low the fhip; fo that my man made himfelf the beft of his way, and, with fome difficulty, came up with 11s before we were got under full failfor, after that,