'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎395] (448/562)

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f° r tn S' r civilities, having been ihe laft two days greatly lycg
idiftrefled in my bowels, from a cold caught on board the veffel, and re-
.newed the day we came to the Lazaretto.
„i'A aS -l b ,l 0Wn ve ?u hard a !. lthe la .® "ight, With thunder, lightning, and December 9 .
■great hail-ftones. I he air fo piercingly cold, it is with difficulty I can
-keep my lei f from fiiivering at the fire-fide. The pain of my bowels is
•iomewhat abated, but I have no appetite.
The bluftering weather is over; and a clear fky and keen air fucceeded. Decembeno.
—Mr. rant am, and another gentleman vifited us ; but I was not well enoucrh
to fee them. 0
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I wrote a letter to Mr. Becher, relative to Mr. Doidge and his company. Monday,
lie anfwered me, that " he could not learn any thing of them, but pro- December1
mi led, agreeable to my defire, to write to Venice." —The conful by a note,
affures me, that neither he, nor the admiral, knew any thing of them.
I giow better daily, though fome pain in the right fide flill continues. December 12.
This has been a fhort, yet one of the moft threatning attacks I ever had
in my bowels; owing to my clofe confinement, the cold wet weather, and
the want of every conveniency when on £hip-board. To thefe may be
added, the heavy rains to which we were expofed on coming alhore, and
the extreme cold and damp air of the Lazaretto, whofe rooms have been
.untenanted, and without a fire for 18 or 20 days paft.
The conful repeated his vifit with Mr. AJkew, this evening. This was December 16.
the firft time I had an opportunity of paying him my perfonal refpedts. He
^ave us great fpirits, by affuring us, that our quarantine would be but of
thirty days continuance; and he added, that of thofe thirty, he believed
he fhould be able to get off five, provided we could refolve to leave all
our wearing apparel behind us. With pleafure we accepted of the propofal,
and gave our orders to taylors, fhoe-makers, to accommodate us with
every thing new; for, as Addifon obferves,
" A day, an hour of precious liberty,
" Is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
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I thank God, I am once more happily reftored to health.—Our little Decenjbcrl7 ..
-community aflembled this morning, and read the prayers of the church,
offering up our moft devout thanks to heaven for its kind protedtion
hitherto.
Mr. and Mrs. Level, to whom Mr. Pajley had been recommended, have Monday,
been very civil and complaifant, in fending us feveral things from their December iV
own kitchen.—The confyl too has been exceedingly kind, fencing us rum
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