y land to
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, but in his road thither he lost his way
in this wild and desert country, and for the space of three days and
nights saw neither house, hut, nor human creature, the weather being very
thick and foggy. Nothing could be more melancholy and dreadful than
these three days' travel; his provisions were exhausted, and every step
he took he was uncertain whether it might lead him farther into the
woods, as he could make no observation how the country lay, the fog
intercepting the light of every thing. Sometimes fancy would paint to
him a hut through the fog at a little distance, to which he would direct
his steps with eager haste, but when he came nearer, found it nothing but
an illusion of sight, which almost drove him to despair. The fourth day
he was exceedingly hungry, when, to his great joy, he espied two
she-goats fastened together with ropes of straw: he ran to them with
great eagerness, and drunk very heartily of their milk; after this he
began to consider that there must be some hut at least hard by, as the
goats could not have strayed in that manner any great distance; he
therefore resolved to stay upon the spot for some time; and soon after
the fog clearing up, he espied a hut just before him, to which he
directly repaired, and there got a belly-full of their homely fare, and
directions to find his way to Stockholm.

The religion of this country being chiefly Lutheran, he passed for the
son of a presbyterian parson, and his name Slowly, pretending to have
been cast away in a vessel bound for Revel. The Lutherans at Stockholm
were exceedingly kind to him and raised a handsome contribution for him.
He likewise chanced there to meet with a relation of Dr. Bredaw, a Swiss
gentleman, that resided at Dartmouth, in Devonshire, who asked several
questions about him; and as Mr. Carew was well acquainted with him, he
gave very satisfactory answers, upon which account that gentleman gave
him a guinea, a great fur cap, a coat, and a fine dog, with a letter to
carry to his relation at Dartmouth.

From Stockholm he went to Charles-town, and after a short stay there
continued his journey to Copenhagen, the metropolis of Denmark; here he
met with one Captain Thomas Giles, of Minehead in Somersetshire, who knew
him, and was surprised to see him in that part of the world, and not only
liberally relieved him himself, but recommended him to several English
commanders there, and also to sev