theîf Ihirts, and wiping off thé' përfpirâtiôrij while we
Were ftrutting. in gréât' êoâts and fur caps,'like fo many
Mufcovités, to keep us from the cold.
Having at this' time received a confiderable prefent of
refrelbments,- font by the city of Amfierdam to thé deliverers
of their favourite- p3îonys and being fo near re-
viliting their old friends' and .acquaintance's, all on board
were in the higheff flow of fpirits,- and ,.exulting. with
gladhefs-— excepting on?/— from whofe mind every hap-
pinefs • was 'banifli ed. '
I muff here Mil relate -the following lingular circum-
ftanee> A man-of-war’s boat .coming alonglide- the liôfc
landici% the officer and crew no fooner- entered oh board,
than one of them, without fpe-aking, ran up aloft, with a
.knife dry his teeth,-to etit down thé pennant. At this time
Lieutenant Colonel Seyburgy prefentirig a mufquety and
fwearing he would IhoObhim outo 14théwigging, the'poor
.fellow came down by the back-ffays like 'a fhot, to' our
, great:entertainment ; next, having explained to him that
•both veffels had been- put in conimiffion' by the Prince of
Orange, the amazed lieutenant made ai harf'dfôm’e apo-
logy, and left the Ihip,
On the 3d of June, every thing being in readjnefs, the
troops were put on board fix lighter ^appointed to frahf-
port them to Bois-le-fiue, in which- -town they Were
next to be compleated, and do the duty as part-of the gar-
rifon. On leaving -the-veffejs we were once- more fainted
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With' nine guns from each ; which having returned with c h a p .
three cheers, we fet fail for the place above mentioned. x x x - ’
As Y \ Paffed M the lighters through the inland towns, ' *
fuch as Saardam, Haerletn, and T’ergozv, I thought them
truly magnificent, particularly the- g-lafs painting in the
great, church of the latter; but their inhabitants, who ,
about us,, from curiofity to lee ys,.appeared, but a
difgufting affemblage of ill-formed and ill-dreffed rabble,
fo much had my prejudices, been changed by living
among the Indians and blacks: their eyes feemecl to referable
thole of a pig;.; their complexions were likp the
colour o f foul linen ; they feemed to have no teeth, and
to b? covered over with rags and dirt. This prejudice,
h o y ever, was not again ft thefe people only, but againft all
Europeans in general, when compared to the fparkjiog
&Y0 . ivory [teetffi Alining- Ikin, and remarkable cleanli-
nefs of thole I had left behind me. But the molt ludicrous.
circumftanceyyas, - that during all this, we never,
once confidered [the truly extraordinary figure that we
mad? ourfelves, being fo much fun-burnt and fo pale,,
that we were nearly the colour o f dried parchment, by *
heat and fatigue; and fo thin, that we looked like moving
fkeletons ; to which I may add, that haying lived fo.long ,
in the woods, we had perfeaiy the appearance of. wild
people 5 and I in particular,, very defervedly, obtained the
charaaeriftic title o f ,le Sau^vdgc^n/M or the Engfiffi
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In this ftate we arrived, oh the 9tb, at the town