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There, indeed, we could not expect the captain to treat us all as passengers, or to be very well pleased with such a crowd of people and such little money. But who can cease wondering, or praising, to find the captain gladly receive us all with the utmost tenderness and concern, admitting all to his table, and furnishing us all with handsome cabins?'

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SECTION II.

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE, BY MR. THOMAS-REMARKS BY THE EDITORSELECTIONS FROM MR. CAREY'S JOURNAL-RETROSPECT BY MR. CAREY, IN A LETTER TO THE SOCIETY-LETTER TO HIS SISTERS.

THE devout reader cannot have passed over the facts narrated in the foregoing section, without admiring the wisdom and benignity of the divine providence, in opening a way for an elevated devotion to display itself, at a crisis, and under circumstances, of such eminent discouragement. Nor can we fail, from such interpositions, to gather confidence in attempting the most arduous service, and offering the most costly sacrifice, to which the dictates of an enlightened conscience can urge us.

The following documents, rehearsing the circumstances of the voyage of Mr. Carey, and his friend Mr. Thomas, it is presumed, will be found of some interest to the christian reader.

Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas to

dated,

'Bengal Bay, October 26, 1793.

'On Thursday morning, the 13th of June, we put to sea, in expectation of writing to you by the Triton frigate, which conveyed us out of the track of privateers, who might otherwise have detained us;

but when we took leave it blew so fresh we could not hoist out a boat, so that a large packet of letters, written by each of us, was not sent you.

'On our coming on board we felt ourselves a little awkward, thinking that some of them seemed very sensible that they were passengers of a better rank than we were, and considering they had paid £109 each, and we, who were eight persons, only 300 guineas; wherefore, we expected to be treated accordingly, and determined to endure it. For my part, I expected a very uncomfortable and lonely passage, having agreed to mess with the servants. We agreed for two cabins only, and two persons to mess at the captain's table; but he that gave Joseph favour in the sight of Pharaoh, had graciously provided for us and our little ones, far beyond our expectation. We found the captain a very well-bred Englishman. He neither would suffer me nor Mrs. Carey's sister to absent ourselves from his table, and received and entertained us all along as though we had been people of consequence; so that he has often shown kindnesses that we could no otherwise account for than by the good hand of God being upon us. On our coming on board, he immediately ordered the very best accommodation in the ship, and the largest to be prepared for Mrs. Carey and her children, and a cabin for me, and another for her sister was granted, while two of the gentlemen, who paid £200, slept in one cabin of the same size. On their being sea-sick, he ordered them soup, sent wine and other comfortable things, and would come himself and visit them, to see they wanted nothing

he could supply them with. Who can see the lovely accomplishments and shining abilities with which some are endowed, without grief of heart to see the 'one thing needful' visibly wanting!

'Poor Mrs. Carey has had many fears and troubles; so that she was like Lot's wife, until we passed the Cape; but ever since, it seems so far to look back to Piddington, that she turns her hopes and wishes to our safe arrival in Bengal. She has had good health all the passage, and her little babe has grown a stout fellow. All the children are remarkably healthy, which we cannot but feel as a great kindness towards us. Mrs. Carey's sister also shares good health, and all bear the heat much better than I expected. Mr. Carey was at one time ill with a complaint in his bowels, which he has been used to at home; but the Lord had mercy on him and me: he is now as well, I suppose, as he ever was in his life, and has been for some months. We have preached twice on each Lord's-day, and have a tolerable choir of singers: some that came to hear us at first have entirely left us, and others have heard us constantly; but, to our great sorrow, we do not see the blessing of God on our labours: some profane customs on the Sabbath, and in common conversation, have been left off, but the one thing needful is lacking; and now we remember the words which the Lord spoke to Ezekiel, iii. 6, 'Surely,' &c. We have reason, nevertheless, to be thankful for some sweet and precious seasons of grace on board, which we have relished among ourselves, both on Sabbath-days, and in family worship, which we enjoy

regularly twice a day. We have finished a translation of the book of Genesis on the passage; and brother Carey helped me out in passages which I could have made nothing of without him. So let the goldsmith help the carpenter, and the carpenter the goldsmith, that the work of God be done.

'We have had some remarkable favours of providence on our passage besides those already mentioned. About six or eight weeks ago we began to fear a want of water, and to talk of an allowance; which, however extraordinary it may appear, we have never been limited by yet; well, the next day the Lord sent down abundance of rain, in two showers, and we filled many casks. About five or six days ago we thought ourselves driven to the southward by a strong current, as far as Vizagatapam, and the captain determined to put in there. We began to be a little troubled in our mind as to what we should do for money, and, if we had it, how we should bear the charge of an expensive house, &c.; when the captain, very unexpectedly, came and told Mrs. Carey that he should take a house at Vizagatapam, and all her family would be welcome to stay there till the ship's departure. Moreover, he has promised to recommend us to the Danish governor of Serampore, sixteen miles from Calcutta; which will be no small favour or convenience, if the company should consider us as trespassers on their ground. But what is more, he has offered to recommend us to the secretary of the supreme council, that we may procure land; and if this should be of God, we shall rejoice; if not

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