er on board than we hoisted sail; the anchors being up,
and the wind fair, we cut the waves at a great rate, till about four
o'clock in the morning, when a French boat came to fetch the mail to
carry it to the post-house, and the boat cast her anchors, for we were a
good distance from the shore, neither could we sail to the town till
next tide, the present one being too far advanced in the ebb.

We might have gone on shore in the boat that carried the mail, but my
husband was sleeping in the cabin when it came to the packet-boat, and I
did not care to disturb him; however, we had an opportunity soon after,
for my husband awaking, and two other boats coming up with oars to see
for passengers, Thomas came to let us know we might go on shore, if we
pleased. My husband paid the master of the packet-boat for our passage,
and Thomas, with the sailors' assistance, got our boxes into the wherry,
so we sailed for Calais; but before our boat came to touch ground,
several men, whose bread I suppose it is, rushed into the water, without
shoes or stockings, to carry us on shore; so having paid ten shillings
for the wherry, we each of us was carried from the boat to the land by
two men, and our goods brought after us; here was a crown to be paid, to
save ourselves from being wet, by all which a man that is going a
travelling may see that it is not the bare expense of the packet-boat
that will carry him to Calais.

It would be needless to inform the reader of all the ceremonies that we
passed through at this place before we were suffered to proceed on our
journey; however, our boxes having been searched at the Custom-house, my
husband had them plumbed, as they called it, to hinder any further
inquiry about them; and we got them all to the Silver Lion, a noted inn,
and the post-house of this place, where we took a stage-coach for
ourselves, and the next morning, having well refreshed ourselves, we
all, viz., my husband, self, and chambermaid within the coach, and
Thomas behind (beside which my husband hired two horsemen well armed,
who were pretty expensive, to travel with us), set forward on our
journey.

We were five days on our journey from Calais to Paris, which we went
through with much satisfaction, for, having fine weather and good
attendance, we had nothing to hope for.

When we arrived at Paris (I began to be sorry I had ever proposed going
to it for fear of being known, but as we were to stay there but a few
days, I was r