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from my eye still being closed up.
Here we spent 3 months enjoying the 
unremitting kindness of the B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> & S<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rs</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi>
many of whom had known my hus-
band from a child.
<gap></gap>After much delay, & having once
been in imminent danger of being
drowned in following the vessel to
<placename>Gravesend</placename> by a boat, we at length,
on the <date>14</date><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi><date> Feb</date><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><date>y</date></hi></hi><date> 1787</date> set sail for
<placename>Jamaica</placename>. During most of this voyage,
we had to experience the truth of that 
declaration, that through much 
tribulation we must follow our Lord.
This was in some degree owing to the
circumstances unavoidable in such
a case. <gap></gap>But the chief cause of our
sufferings arose from the character 
& conduct of our Captain. He had 
<hi rend="underline">made</hi> fair promises, but <hi rend="underline">kept</hi> none
of them, nor did he permit us to enjoy
our stipulated rights. In short, he was
a man whose heart was an enmity
with God, & who could not therefore