s at all, but after we had sorted out
our whole cargo, we had yet near #200 in money, which was more than
enough for our purpose.

In this condition, very cheerful, and indeed joyful at being so happily
accommodated as we were, we set sail from Bugby's Hole to Gravesend,
where the ship lay about ten more days, and where the captain came on
board for good and all. Here the captain offered us a civility, which
indeed we had no reason to expect, namely, to let us go on shore and
refresh ourselves, upon giving our words in a solemn manner that we
would not go from him, and that we would return peaceably on board
again. This was such an evidence of his confidence in us, that it
overcame my husband, who, in a mere principle of gratitude, told him,
as he could not be in any capacity to make a suitable return for such a
favour, so he could not think of accepting of it, nor could he be easy
that the captain should run such a risk. After some mutual civilities,
I gave my husband a purse, in which was eighty guineas, and he put in
into the captain's hand. 'There, captain,' says he, 'there's part of a
pledge for our fidelity; if we deal dishonestly with you on any
account, 'tis your own.' And on this we went on shore.

Indeed, the captain had assurance enough of our resolutions to go, for
that having made such provision to settle there, it did not seem
rational that we would choose to remain here at the expense and peril
of life, for such it must have been if we had been taken again. In a
word, we went all on shore with the captain, and supped together in
Gravesend, where we were very merry, stayed all night, lay at the house
where we supped, and came all very honestly on board again with him in
the morning. Here we bought ten dozen bottles of good beer, some wine,
some fowls, and such things as we thought might be acceptable on board.

My governess was with us all this while, and went with us round into
the Downs, as did also the captain's wife, with whom she went back. I
was never so sorrowful at parting with my own mother as I was at
parting with her, and I never saw her more. We had a fair easterly
wind sprung up the third day after we came to the Downs, and we sailed
from thence the 10th of April. Nor did we touch any more at any place,
till, being driven on the coast of Ireland by a very hard gale of wind,
the ship came to an anchor in a little bay, near the mouth of a river,
whose name I remember not, but they sa