he great cabin as we had ordered it.

This took up the time till dinner, and when we were sitting together
after we had both dined, the captain came to tell us that the wind was
very fair, and that he was to sail at high water, which would be about
ten o'clock at night. My husband asked him to stay and drink part of a
bottle of wine with him, which he did; and their discourse being all in
the maritime strain, the Quaker and I retired and left them together,
for I had something to remind her of in our discourse before we left
London. When we got into the garden, which was rather neat than fine, I
repeated all my former requests to her about my children, Spitalfields,
Amy, &c., and we sat talking together till Thomas was sent to tell us
the captain was going, on which we returned; but, by the way, I kissed
her and put a large gold medal into her hand, as a token of my sincere
love, and desired that she would never neglect the things she had
promised to perform, and her repeated promise gave me great
satisfaction.

The captain, who was going out of the parlour as we returned in, was
telling my husband he would send six of his hands to conduct us to the
boat, about a quarter of an hour before he sailed, and as the moon was
at the full, he did not doubt of a pleasant passage.

Our next business was to pay off the coachman, to whom my husband gave
half a guinea extraordinary, to set the Quaker down at the house he
took us all up at, which he promised to perform.

As it was low water, we went on board to see the cabin that we were to
go our voyage in, and the captain would detain us to drink a glass of
the best punch, I think, I ever tasted.

When we returned to the inn, we ordered supper to be ready by eight
o'clock, that we might drink a parting glass to settle it, before we
went on board; for my husband, who knew the sea very well, said a full
stomach was the forerunner of sea-sickness, which I was willing to
avoid.

We invited the landlord, his wife, and daughter, to supper with us, and
having sat about an hour afterwards, the captain himself, with several
sailors, came to fetch us to the vessel. As all was paid, we had nothing
to hinder us but taking a final leave of the Quaker, who would go to see
us safe in the vessel, where tears flowed from both our eyes; and I
turned short in the boat, while my husband took his farewell, and he
then followed me, and I never saw the Quaker or England any more.

We were no soon