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I am now growing so hungry that I can scarcely refuse my companion's offers of his bread & butter and wine. I think however if we reach Gravesend this afternoon I shall not be quite starved in the interim sanctuaries for a quarter of an hour we have a heath of wind and at any time but little so that it may be tomorrow afternoon before we get out to sea. I think myself will off if I get to the end of any voyage by fryday night or saturday morning.
Would it be worth while for me to have a good ? It would might be something very usefull to discover or examine objects too distant for the reach of the eye; but it would cost money; not less that 3 or 4 guineas at which I have is but of very little use. My fellow pafengers have now said all they can find to say to one another and has got hold of them. Some however have outwitted him for they are fallen asleep. The spectacles I have immediately before me the changef and calmnef of the weather and the pleasant appearance which the country about as at this time will I fear shortly have some little effect on my verdicts; but when I find the change coming on I must take resolution enough to harm to my and date settle the more minute details of my plan of proceding when I get to the strange shores. We don't seem under any apprehension of the French; but I cannot but have enough & make me rejoice most heartily when I am safe landed. I have shared one of my apples with my companion.
Wednesday morning Gravesend.
We did not reach Gravesend last night but came to an anchor about 3 or 4 miles above its shore we were to stay from 8 o'clock in the evening till day light the next morning there was no getting ashore. However we
1779 S.B. Gravesend Aug 1.B Linc. Inn 25 On board the Jorge Maria on his voyage to
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