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Saturday Augt 28th 1779.

I think I have heard you say that when you find it necessary you could at any time set your stomach Hottentot
fashion. I now find it necessary to set all my senses Hottentot fashion: but thank my Stars I have been able
to do it tollerably well. I caught such a cold in my neck the night before last as made it all day yesterday
so stiff as not only to give me very great pain when I moved the neck itself but even my back or
arms. I never had any thing like it before. I was then perfectly indifferent about getting on in
my voyage; but however I have almost got rid of it today. Conceive how happy I must be unable
to sit up, and affraid to come on deck for fear of increasing my cold. We had a little
fair wind for a few hours this morning which encouraged our Captain to leave the River:
now the wind is again turned against us, but nevertheless I hope we may reach Margate
this evening. I have no expectations of reaching Helvootslys in less than a week from the
time of our sailing. I sent a letter with the boat ashore yesterday at a little village
just below Lee in Essex. It was a great mortification

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Date_1	1779-08-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	361	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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