the men when they tried to stop him. The want of food he
had to put up with.

When he got to the Borough he took a coach and drove to Marlborough
Street, where his people had lived before he left England. But when he
came to the house he found it shut up. He had been away for five years,
and had not heard a word from home all that time, therefore he was at a
loss to know what to do for a few minutes until he remembered a linen
draper's shop near by which his family had used. He drove there, and
told them who he was. They paid his coachman for him, and told him that
his sister was married to Lord Carlisle, and was living in Soho Square.

He went at once to her house; but the porter would not admit him for a
long time. He was strangely dressed; half in Spanish, and half in French
clothing, and besides, he wore very large and very mud-bespattered
boots. The porter was about to shut the door in his face when John Byron
persuaded him to let him in.

Then at last his troubles were over. His sister was delighted to see
him, and at once gave him money with which to buy new clothes. And until
he looked like an Englishman again, he did not feel he had come to the
end of all the strange scenes and adventures that he had experienced for
more than five years.

_PETER WILLIAMSON_[34]

I WAS born in Hirulay, in the county of Aberdeen. My parents, though not
rich, were respectable, and so long as I was under their care all went
well with me. Unhappily, I was sent to stay with an aunt at Aberdeen,
where, at eight years old, when playing on the quay, I was noticed as a
strong, active little fellow by two men belonging to a vessel in the
harbour. Now this vessel was in the employ of certain merchants of
Aberdeen, who used her for the villainous purpose of kidnapping--that
is, stealing young children from their parents, and selling them as
slaves in the plantations abroad.

These impious monsters, marking me out for their prey, tempted me on
board the ship, which I had no sooner entered than they led me between
the decks to some other boys whom they had kidnapped in like manner. Not
understanding what a fate was in store for me, I passed the time in
childish amusement with the other lads in the steerage, for we were
never allowed to go on deck while the vessel stayed in the harbour,
which it did till they had imprisoned as many luckless boys as they
needed.

Then the ship set sail for America. I cannot remember much of the