IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // 1.0 !i:i- IIM I.I 1.25 1- III 2-8 i& •^lE P2 !!: 1^ i^° tj. U IIIIII.6 V] ^ % 92 PATTflRSdff's ur com* termelon \em \ but 1, the ig- me to us ih them< We told them that ff they had let them alone until they bad come to maturity, they would have been a good substitute for breadj but they said iricmgtV that is, no* The food of this country is, yam», poia- jtoes, plantains, cocoanuts, baniinad, taros, I breadfruit, human flesh, an inferior kind, of swine which they raise, &c« The bread- fruit grows on trees fifteen or twenty feet hig hours they take out tha flash, &c. and each one receives his share. . Their method of tilHni^ the ground, is by band lo dig up the earth with sticks sharpen- ed, or levers ; and then with iheir hands I Elant yams and potatoes. Plantains, andl ananas are raised by separating and trans- planting the scions eacli season; but aboutl all the other fruits of these islands are naturj ally produced by the soil* * ' ■ '■ - ■ ■ These savages are cannibals, and eat th bodies of their own malefactors, and all thosi of their prisoners : and as they were contin 9f th rogue madd lane o his p( fully i ftandii myself log J h hehad fellow and wi beitig I won. ually at war with some of the tribes arounB, ^ * them, and the breach of their own ^^wsl.|^ ij in nearly every case was punishable witB Z^.^l "^ death, they generally had a supply of humal i . ^ iiesn* ■ «_ irere s These wretches also eat vermin of almoi Th( every description ; and if by pulling up I , j feush or weed, or by any other means, ^^Jcall r! meei with worms, they are as sure and^auicl r.j " . to devour them as dung-hill fowls would bf » ^^ j One flay the wife of a^chief, having collectcl??^^®T a number of lice iii her hand from the heJJ^JJ f^^' of her little son, she beckoned to the chil^ "^""^ who was at a little distance, lo come, atidj^ ^^^* his haste to possess himself of his game, I ^^^''^ Jiurried them too caycelessly ipto hi^ mou| ^^^^ KARRATIVC* 95 9f this, it seems, one df the Scampering rogues some how took the advantage, *ana inad6 hi§ escape from the; grinders down the lane of the chief's throat, and there taking his post to good advantage, he unmerci- hilly choaked the poor bellow* Notwith- standing the agony of the chief, Steere and myself could not avoid laughing at his flounc- ing ; but this ofTeirded him much ; and after he had obtained the better of thet:riiel little fellow in his thrbati hecalf^dfor his war club and was about to vent hia rage on us for not being more solemn on so distressing an occa- sion* We thought then that the end of our days had come sure enough, and beean to look for the fatal blow^ which undoubtedly would h^ve been giveny had not a young chi^f, who was ever a friend to us, icterced- ed in our behalf: by thrs^meanis^ eur lives T^rere spared, and we escaped* Their religion appears to b^ ii foUows ; each tribe haba man, something Hke a pries% called Rombetty ; and in the midst of their villages, they have a large building called Booree-cfurlow, that is^ house of the Spirit, for. the purpose of their religious devotion: wbe^re they worship the sunt moont and starn* To this sanctc(a(r^ the people retire every mornihg, led by their Ronibetty, whom they follow promiscuously : at the house they appear vet^ solemn and regular } ->s: 96 PATV^RSON^fl and apparently seriously retire after their service is ended* Adult the oi his wj bark i stick togetfa dies fii lestedi In their devotion they have a kind of sa- crament, using the root called on the Sand' wicb islands ava, but angooner in this coun* •try* In the iirst place they wash the root clean, and then chew it, and put it into a large plantain leaf, which is as big as a small tea table, which ihey lay in a hole in the ground, and then pour a small quantity of water to it, and rinse the substance out* This liquor the Rombetty serves out in small plan- tain leaves to his people, and as each one re* ceives itj they all clap their hands and say mannor angooner, which is returning thanksl if one to God in their way. After pariaking oflthus ha this they think they are happy, its effect be'ller, tha ing similar to that of laudanum. Imornin ■sneeze, Circumcision is a sacred rite among thelvent it natives of Feejee, and they circumcise theirlte bifi male children when young. lent din Icomica All their marriages are made by the par J we 11 k( vives, buried Hi sneeze class h tee, an ents when their children are in infancy ; a which time the parties get together an( kill tis have^ great feast of the best the country af young < fords, and partake of the angooner root : am ed his i after the young couple arrive to the age o maturitv they live together. iThe chief ii allowea eight or ten wives if he cbposes chief w The W^BRATltiEi m their of sa- > Sand' 8 coun* ie root into a a small in the' ntity of t. This i\\ plan- one re* Adultery is punished with the death of both the offenders, if the hu«sband expires before hi» wife, she is choEed to death by putting a hark around her neck, and twisting it with a stick until she is dead, and they are buried together in the same grave ; but.n the womaji dies first, the man Js suffered to live uhmb- lested. And, if the chief dies, haying ten wives, they must all be chokecl to deatb and buried with 'him* It. is an abominaition among them to sneeze or break wind,- and if one of the Ibwer class happens to do either, the cry is, armat- and sayltee, armattee;, thai is, that he might die ; but r thanks! if one of the chiefs, or their wives, should Icing dlthus happen to do, the^ say ambuller, am.bul* feet be'|)er, that is, that he might be well. But, one morning a wife of a <;hief heii>g' about to sneeze, she violently seized her nose to pre- vent it; Dut as huiiiorbus nature was not t6 be b.iffled in this way, there was in a differ* ent direction not a little disturbance; at this comical affair, Steere and myself could not well keep from laughing a little ; but the chief was greatly offended, and was about tdi ler' an( kill lis immediately for our impudence, but a iintry af< )roung chief interceded for us and we escap* )0t: anJcd his fury. ^ e age ol chief il The men of these islands have no 6ther cboosesfiress but I i»trip of cloth about six ififhes long the ise theii the par |incy ; PATTEllMIl'9 . ifvide,and six feet lop^, broU up between tbe legSf and then passing around the waist, with one end hanging aown before and the o^er behind, called marrar* Their hair they burn or s^r shorthand erect in every direetiQ|n« dressed with the white ashes of the bread fruit tree leaves, made into a kind of paste^ and fited among it. « The dress of the women, is a band about •is inches wide, and long enough to pass around ishe waist, curiously worked of ji^ss and bark of different coli/urs, fcalled leeky. j This they fix around their middle, with a lock of grass about six inches long haneing down before* Their head dress Is the liair about sis inches long fixed erect, scotched or burned wijth brands of fire to make it ciirl and keep its place ; they then .place the ash-pasiej over the whole bead, which when» c^ ap- pears tike white hair powder. That their beads thus fixed may not be nifikd, or the flresai^g injured when sjeepirigv^ s;iick cuj riously wprkedi pf the size of a watkii^ stafl is pla'oedabout five inches from the ground ool Ciali protches, ancf on this they laj^ tfaeii 8Ul|^ across not far from the badk side one of their ears, while the rest of the bod] lies on the ground, straw, or a mat, entirelj Tbese people are wiell ishapedi and KARRATIVE* f 99 comely features * in many instances, their bair black and naturally straight, and their * skin of a copper colour^. excepting in a sin* gle instance we saw one wno was white among them, as Steere and myself were walk- ing out; lie- was in company with a large coTlection, and 1 thinking be was an Europe- an, and being overjoyed, cried put^ Hpvr fare you, shipmate ^ but the savajjes broke out in a great laughter, saying, taw\hiw| haniri haw, peppa longa Feejee, peppa Ton- ga Feejee ; that is, 'white i^,an of Feejee- Whether: any oth^s weyris white aiaong them I never, knew* < f»'/i» »"■ ite PA CHAP XVIII. ' <^ Should Tengeance still my soul pursue* t)«ath and destruction 1 must rue, . Yet mercy can my guilt forgive. And bid a wretched being life." My dreadful sufferingi at Feejet* I was in a poor, lingering^and debilitated state of health ; some times I could eat of I thfe produce of the country, and sometimes I < could not relish it, and almost starved for food. I would go into the huts and look up to the baskets which hun^g on the ridge-pole of the housea^with provisions in them to keep from the vermine,-— look at the chiePs wifej and put my hand on my breast and say, sar' beur conur cooue. which is^ 1 am hungry, andj she would give a piece of yam or potatoe. But, one'day when we were very hungry, wej tobk a walK out to get some plantains, batl came to a tree on which they Were not ripe ;| and in order that we might nav6 some to eat another day, we pulled off a fe.w and bliriec' them in the hot sand to ripen; but looking iip we saw standing on a hill, a isavage, anc tlitated eat of jlimes I •ved fot ook up gc-polc to keep f'g wife ay, ear- rry, and polaioe* gry.wei ins, but ot ripe ; le to eat| biniei look in! age, am he made at^us full speed with his wa^ dub ; Steere rtiri, but I bein| lame had to stay and take the worst of it : the savage came up and kickeci me over, and kicked me after I was down, and left mc for dead ; he then due up the plantains and carried and shewed tbetn to the chief* But I, recovering, got up and went and entered my complaint. likewise t6 him,' but he also was angry with me and! could get no redress: I contrnoed growing weaker until my fee- ble limbs could no ranger support me, and 'One day in walking out Ffetl and could not •get wp; at which the savages called Steere to i&3r asgistance, and he carried me into the chiefs hut* Here I stayed a few days and fared as they did ; but one day they smel- ling^, noisome scent, laid it to a man in the hut, but ke denying It, they charged it to me* The chief then ordered me tb be carried out, and placed in a kut they had bniU for th« purpose of putting in yam8,^but it had stood so long as to be much decayed^ ' f For about five weeks I was unaMe a 'con* Itiderabte part of the time^ to go out of this hut, or even turn myself, and endured mo|e than possibly ^m be exptessed: ' Alt my beddffig wai^ only a hard brab map spread or Ithe ground, on which, h^ked and without ^ny covering I lay. When ft rairied the wfi- 9» mmmmmm «« 102 PATTBA8O!l'0 ter would pour upon me in fllreams/ and the ground under me become mud, and the wa- ter around me be half deep enough to cover me. In this situation I was often obliged' to lie, b^ing unable to move or help mvself. Might after night without any humao being sear me I have spent thus lyine in the water and mud; while peals on peals of thunder, seemingly shook the very foundations of the earth, and unremitting streams of lightnings would seem as though volcanoes were burst- ing in every direction around me. VVhen the storms ceased, and the water dried away from my bed, by day my naked emaciated body was bitten and stung with numerous insects, which constantly,, on all days, never ceased to devour me. } was nearly ^lind| with soreness -of eyes, the use of one leg en* tirely gon^, and distressingly afflicted wiffaj the gravel ; which were my principal com* pla|nts, together with a general weakness! through the whole system. • - ■ ■ While lyiog in this situation these cannij kals^ would ofteti come and * feel of my legi and tell me, peppa longa sar percolor en dee] ni, that is, white man you are good to eatj ll^e had bullock's hides on board with thejf Aorns on,' which the sat^ages had tak0n, ai T used to tell them if they would leave oi •atine their own flesh or htiman beings, God . woiilq Bend thte sucli cattle as those hideJ .'.-T NilAATIVE. 103 were taken from; but tbey said they diJ not want them» for they shoiild be afraid of diem. The women would also come and ask me whenNi was going to die^ and I used to tell them, when the Lord should see fit io lake me out of the world ; and they would say if they were half so sick they should die ri^ht off« They asked me where 1 came froni ; and I told them from America, a land away out of sight ; they then asked me if we had any women amone us ; I said yes ; but they replied sicingi, tnat is, no ; I then asked them .where they thonght we came from ; and they pointed up to the sun, and said, peppa longa tooronga roartinasinger, that is, white men are chiefs from the sun ; I told them no, we had women in our country and came into the world as they did, and that their God was our God, and that one God was God over all ; but they said our God was a greater God than their's. After we found ^ey believed that our God was grea- sier than tlieir's, we endeavored to niake Ithein afraid; and told them if they killed us our God would be angry with them, and they would not conquer their enemies, nor raise any thing on their lands. ;^ While c6nfined #in my hut the women [would come and examine m^, to see if 1 was 104 PAtt&M^sU circumcised, and when they found that I was not, they wouki point their fingers at me and say I wab unclean* They used to brir>g calabashes of water, roll me over, and wash ''|he mud from my body^ and^ by my request stream breast milk into my eyes to cute them* beacby launchc him thi lUgsail try toil ready, c <♦ Sam. I Di^kear on his b noe : we breadfri laun'ch partly b out it le water, a had got That we might not lose our time, or dates, we kept the day of the week and month thus ; we knew the day we were shipwrecked was theSotbof June; we, for then took a spear of grass, and for every day tied a knot, and for every Sunday tf 2d two,one over the other. By this means we found out when Christmas came. On this day 1 told Steere we must have something "better than common to ^siM-g^gg ^ heathen asked me what it could be? ' toid|^f^^^^ him to go out among the sugar canes, and knock over one of the chieFs fowls, anci take it, and pull up a handful of herbs, and tell the chief he tvanted to make me some tea, and so borrow a pot of him, and make him think we wanted it for tl^t purposi^, ^l^il^lku*' we should be cooking the fowl with it. * Thus we had our feast, and felt as well, pe^ •h^ps. Hs many would en the best daintiies io America* ran and great ra| fell d6w] mency, begged We were At length my eyes were some better^ an^ fiy strength in some small degree restored ^d^ one day Steeire travelting along th« In thij longer ; tempted I coukJ lometimi other tin attempte NARAATlti. m beacbf discovered a canoe handy to be . launched, and he informed me of it : I told hitn that 1 had a mat that we could make a lug sail of, apd on a favorable hTour we would try to launch (he canoe and be off. Being ready, one night Steere came to me and said, <^Sam. the stfvages areall asleep, and we will I DUkke an attempt to g^t away.'' He topl^ me on his back and carried n>e down to the ca* :noe : we took a calabash of water, some yams, jbreadiTuit,«ahd potatoesv We attempted to |laun'ch the canoe, but it felfoff a log and partly broke in two* We got it off to a reef| I but it leaked so bad as to be partly filled with water, and we found we must return. We bad got back near the beach just as the sa'v- ages were iurning out in the morningr They Iran and informed the chief, and he came in a I great rage with his war club to kill us. We fell dbwn on our knees and pleaded his cle- mency, and the young chief our friend, also.^ begged that we might be spared, and finally we were forgiven, and I was returned to my Ibut. ' J \ In this situation I lay about three weeks {longer; and during this time was awfully tempted with» the devil ; he cold me that if II couM die, i^ would be an end to all, and [lometimes he made me believe it^ but at other timeft 1 was of a different opinion, and attempted to praiy, as follows ;. O Lord spare % ^ 106 PAtTfiRSON's my unprofi(a^I« !ife, and enable me to get off (hU ravage island; and protect me once more over the boisterous ocean to my Dative country ; and I wifl try by thy assistance to leek religion^aiid become what thou wouldst] have me to be. \ After this I' was. moved with the insinua>, tion^ of satan again, and made to beiieve that aU Would >be well With me, if 1 should then be dispatched to the World of spiH;ts;"ahd l| put a pilece of bark about tiij neol(, ahd madel ah em>rt to hang mvself, but i^m so weafi that I coufd not get the bark pirer the ridge pole of the house, and was unable to accoml plish my awful design* ' f VfAftRATTTE. lOT CHAP XIX. " IiieTery object heTe I tee, Soraethisg, my heart, that poiots la tbe« ^ Hard as tiie rocka that lioend the strand, Umfnitlfal at the barren saoid, Peep and deceitfnl as the ocean^ ilincl^ lijb^ |bj ^des, in constant motion/* Vmt Booyer, and retuim to JVtne. At length the chief being about to set out I a Journey I with his canoes, to ttie island )f Booyier^ another of. ihe F^ejeea, Steere id inyself prevailerl on liim to let us go wi^ ^itn ; and 7a8 sen^ in for tne chiefs wife,^ and she eat it] 1 told her what she hadf been eating: she denied it at first, but at length ownec that the flesh was of the man that I sai killed. - The greediness of these people, and u cannibals, for human flesh is astonishing!] .|;rea( ; and perhaps there is no evil habit sj htird to be eradicated as.^is inhuman onel It has been known, that eVen after the pratl t ice has beien renounced, and ^tije persoi christianized, still a lurking hankering appe tite has remained a long time. After being here some weeks, and seeii j|o prospect of getting oir> the chief of Nirit arrived^ and he persuaded us to go back witI hiai to his island again* ' mm ip^fl MARRATITE. 109 I was now on the spot where I 6m landed from the wreck, anc fell in company with two of my other shipmates, Brown^ who drifted from the wreck on the canoesi as is mentioned beforei and a black fellow* It 110 PATTERSON S CHAP XX. " Hope now revives that I once more, Shall see my longM for native shore. And all the powers of sifcence fail, The raptures of my soul to tell. My departure from Nirie, to American Ship at Booyer* v^ Seeing no other prospect of relief, we pre- vailed on the chief to let us have an old ca- noe that they had condemned, and we patch- ed it up, and consulted with Brown and the black man, about going to the island of Bqo- yer in search of a ship*\ « John, the black man, agreed to go, but Brown said the expe- dition was too dangerous, ^nd should de- cline going, and he went and joined the chief to whom he bad belonged, to assist him to fight bis battles, he being then at war. Some of our men were so unwise, as to go with the natives into their battles with mus- NARRATIVE. Ill kets, and kill manj^ of the opposite party,' who had neyer injured them, and pleased their employers much. Tfiey were extreme- ly afraid of a gun, and seldom would fire one themselves; and whenevei^ they did, they would pull, and at the same instant drop the piece on the gi:ound, and spring from it, that it might not kick them' over, or turn its thun- der against them.' The condition on which we obtained the old canoe, was, as the chief expected that I must die jsoon, Steere and John were to take me to the isl^qd of Booyer, and put me on board of a ship which he knew had gone there, and get knives, beads, sissors, and whales^ teeth, and bring them to him as a present. > ^ ' We having on board water, yams, and po- tatoes, and being ready to depart, the chief and the savages came down, and 'brought some angobner, and we partook with theipt ' in their sacrament, and they wished us good success. * , One of the natives got into our canoe with us and piloted us over the reef* which lay about a mile and a half fron^the shore. He ' then with his war club, wmcb they always carry with them, jumped overboard and swam io the shore* This was about nine o'clock \\\ His .■■' :i. ^^f:,t^ 113 rATTBEflOH'fl in the morning, and%e stood on with the trade winds, running about five niles an hour, and at sunset we were *ont of sight of land; We ru|i on all that night with fresh breez- es and squalls. The next morning we saw a canoe running down for us, and were much affrighted. The . giiy that held our mast failed, and our sail went overboard; it was with difficulty we spliced our guy and got our mast up i gain. By this time the canoe with the natives came up with us, and they seeing we were white men cried out, taw haw, haw haw, peppa longa na wanka matta> that is, the white men of the ship that was broke. They held up'some provision that was cook- ed, and asked us if we were hungry T and if we wanted some meat? _. We told them no; for we were afraid dli thefd,. and did not choose to have them come* on board of us. */ We steered on about two hours longer, and Steere cried out, *^ Sam. I see a sail, I see a sail !'^ I told him that I guessed it was one of the savages' double canoes : but he said, no,for he could see her courses, and her top- sails. My eyes being sore at that time I could not see far ; but after a little while hav« in^run on further,. I couid^clearly discover d ftau tiiy&eiU W« strove to make ahead as VARRATlVe^ 118 &st as we cottld, In order to fall in with the vessel if possible, but she sailed much fas- leij than we, and soon left us at a great, disiance in the re^r. A- ■ Beingou^ofhopes^f coming up with the sail we ha«eer- ed acrossi Jbut i^d like to have beeiv<>pset in the breakers ;' we got oVer the x^kU but soon lost sight ^i the vessel, in c<»n$^uenc6 of the sun goi^g down ; but we lopped away ahead and saw, {Tome mangfov^ bushes, and tbok them ixi be the lahd ; by/ when we got up to them and finding them to be bushes, we run in among them« in order 'to make the canoe fasti aocT lie there all night. / :^r.»-i:-*\ • My two shipmates my 'iown and went to sleep, anf) left me bailing out the water from the canoe with a calabash shell : about ten o'clock I got the v^ater all out, and beings I weary and sleepy, iiot having slept any the night before, I put my hands on riy knees and laid my head in them and fell asleep, iow long 1 slept f know not ; but when I 10* 114 PATTkirfsbifa^ heaven at the t We proved son in I Camel, ihat ! w< same cl son of Island. My CO noe on 1 awoke the canoe bud sonk. My shipmates awakiiig, cried out^ '^ Sam, what did you let the canoe sink for?" The roots of the man- grove bushes prevented the canoe from go* ing to the bottom. Steere and John climb- edup on the bushes, in order to keep out of the water: but I being lame, and not able to climb, reached up and took hold of the haul- yard and pulled myself up ; but at the top of high water, etery ^ea tfaiat cam^, went over my head ; between the seas I w%is just able to catch my: breath ; and in "this situation, naked and distressed, I hun'g until morning, when \he tide fell atray and left the canoe bear, *f^ bailed out th6 Water, aiid hofiStedl overjoy e our sail ag^i. lof ^be hs I to tell th Hearing the ^Vages talk oil the land, we| wanted were greatly alaf^ned, for fear they woul come on board ahdrab u$4 and kill liTs ; fori After we had oh board all tke money that we faaalQinutes, collected at Nirie* But,ab6titiiev6n o^cloctfthe side in the morning, the tide tose so that t\^ c^lwhy don noe floated again, and We steered on rounlheen th the island, in order to find the ship we saw 1 replie thc^a^ before^ ^ laird if I ^^^ ^ jTheyii When we had sailed on about one and hal jumped iiour, Steere cried out, *' Sain* I see the vejthe vess i^els P' I looked up, and beheld them aboi twQ giiles 4i!^tanC« and cast my eyes tip I I was entirely :'%.--. r-U. - N4A.RATIVC. 115 heaven, and returned hearty thanks, iSoiigh at the time I was a poor abs^ndoned sinner* ''' We ran on to tlie nighesi vessel, and it proved to be the brig Favourite of Port Jacit- 8on in New Holland, commanded by captain Camel, who commanded the letter of marque that I went on board of in India, and had the tame chief mate, Arnold Fisk an American, I son of haac Fiske. of Ci'ans|on in Rhode Island. - ^ '■'■'■* ■ My companions jumped up om ca> noe on board of the vessel; and being so [overjoyed to find theidselv^s once more out of ^he hands of the savages, they neglected I to tell the 8hip'% crew that I was lame, ^nd wanted assisted assistance* After being along side in the ca noe.. a few fniniates, one of the sailors l66l(cd over the side of the vessel, and said, *' Shipmate, why donH you come on board, haven't you been there long enough without a shirt?" 1 replied that I had lost the use of a limb, and if 1 got on board I must have assistance* They immediately rove the man-ropes, and jumped down, and helped me up on board of the vessel* I Was an object of pity \ the use of one leg e&tirely gone, so weak that I was not able to ♦ ■> 118 rATTB«80R'8 Stand? ftrtcl my body burned wilh the scorch, iiigiiin in such 6l tiiannei*, that I was blister- ed from the crown of my head, to the sole of I my feet ; eveti the rims of my ears were blis-j tered* A few greed to jves of B ir collect ng Eliza ivay, whi 8 there, ives, sii My $hipmaliBs brmight me a shirt, and pdlirof trowsers : and thev brought us a bot. tie and ga^e us a drink of grog, and a chew., of tobilcpo. >I Jooked. round, iind thought i%^!}ff? ^^ there'was any bCiiiven/ I ha4 got to one, 'n J j J ^"^» being out ©t the hand^ of savages, and onW J^ *■ board of an European vessel. iepaFaife a ' lea, and p Breakfast beingj ready, we went down andf muskc eajt. We ihcjuired what other two Vessehl*^ , . lhc)&e weVe in sight, and w.eie tofd that <^nel ^m -I was the General Wellesley of London ; andr^"'® "^J' the other, brig filizy beth ol Port Jackson,!!^ ^""®^ W^ a^ked them what day of the mcyith it|"^" ^^^ was, and ^k^y told us; we overhauled ^"'Ifu^^j^^ string of nols, and found we wer^ cor.re€t| ^^^^' Mith the exception of one ,day> which we hadl j ■ lost* :. ,/ ' tear throw Onboard I fell in with Wm. Shaddockf^";^ ^ Jon repuls it being fl who was cast away with us, and bad got o"* - '^^ ^ board of the Favourite before us- I stayed on board of this brig three days when she sailed, and we -went on board o the General Wellesley. Steere su| e sum of the Gen« ck and 'Jim NARRATirC. 117 A few days after this, Steere and John igreed to take a canoe, with some of the na* ives of Booyer, and return to Nirie, to buy, ir collect the remainder of the money of the |[ig Eliza, the vessel in which we were cast |way, which was scattered among the sava- 18 there. For this purpo!ie they took clothsi liveSy sissors, beads, axes, chissf Is,, and [iecesof ivory made into the form of whales' !eth ; but, before they left the vessel, Steere id John disagreed, and took each of them a iparat^ canoe, with a number of the sava- [es, and proceeded on their voyage, armed lith muskets, spears, and clubs* On their passage they fell in with some )stile natives of another island, in|canoes, ». ^""Iid armed with war clubs and spears, witli *^^^".'|hom they had a severe skirmish: their de- I fen was to possess themselves of the goods In the defence, John was killed with a jear thrown throu!^}i his body ; but Steere )ening a bri^k fi' upon them, they were went on his way with- osted. nand esseU t one and' oirec^ le hac i.fo idock] cot 01 [on repulsed, and It being further w days lard Steere succeedct e sum of the mon< the Genfr.«l V/vl ck and myself. collecting a considera- . and returned on board sley, and joined Shad- \i mmmimmm 118 PATTERSON i We lay here atiout seven weeks, when sailed round to the other side of the islam where we fell in with the ship T New York^ captain Lrumley ; and we wei sent on board of her, with all our monej The captain having a plenty of provision| Ivas willing to receive us, and agreed ^o can us where there ^as a consul, to be furtb^ prpVlided for. > 1 knowing the boatswain, and several th'e hands being men that I had sailed wi^ before, 1 advised the boatswain, or some the men. to take charge of the money in care; but they refused, for fear their ch'^sl -would be broken open £ind robbed. But ll[ captain took it into liis care, agreeing to gh it up when We should arrive in Canton. / NARRATIVE. 119 CHAP. XXI. t< Adien, ye canpibals, adieu, To happier shqres 1 (lasteftom yon ; that the pow'r of light divine, Into your savage souls may shine.'* Sail for Chihct^ v We* cdntipbed ybtt "Tjof^d of the T- ibout three months before we mailed; when, jeing ready for sea, we weighed ancbory aiKi roceedtid for Cantom After a pleaisant voyage of six weeks, we rrived at Macoa, and alter getting refresh- [ents, and a pilot on board, we sailed and me to anchor eighteen miles below Canton* The ship lay here some months^ but capt* trumley went immediateljr up t« Cunton in 's boat, and here he saw the American con- 1 (Edward Carrington, Bsq* of Providence) id informed him that he had three men on oard, who were shipwrecked ontbe FeejeeSf id told him of the money we had saved from e wrecki which was in his possession* 120 riTTERSON's V w '■ The consul advised that we and the mon] ey should be committed to his care, and w( accordingly were placed on his hands, anc the money was delivered to him. This wa] in July, 1809. At first the consul appeared to be unwil ling to believe but what 1 was an English man; but he was convinced to the contrary! and used me with great kindness : and, m heart can never lose a tender affection io his great goodnesi to me iii my bitter affile tion. '^Vot ■V >< PA^FTERaSA^V^ porlance* We ^f^t^rned again, and 1 was sent immediateiy on the cwenit' to my h^art likir a' Aaiied SWOlN^i , v.... **IfAfri(AtlVK. 123 '•?. ^, CHAP. XX4U.; " Distantre^ions now farewell* To my niltive climes I sail ': Blow, ye winds, ^etdmpe'sts cease, .HoaT^Djpiratect niei)'er the seas»" " . My return to America. >'V . Rot long froto thisi ih« .BaUic of Provir tlejice arrived, commQnidleid by captajn Jona- ^than Aborn: he came up 'tip Caiylon, and the consul' iafocmed him of me, £^,d asked him if he knew^uch a p^f^^ti, CaptaiQ Aborn eame and entered into conversation with roe, to 'find where I Ibelonged, and on bis {first speak* ing tiO me I called him by name, shook hands with him, , and told him who I was, — that 1 was an apprentice to him when I was a boy, and that he was the first man that I sailed with. He asked me what my name was ; I told him, and that 1 Was his appr€niic:e boy when he sailed out bf Providence in Butler's employ. After recollecting me, he seemed to be much affected with my* misfortunes, and told m^ to get ready, and go with him I ^liSi ft i h. lilv I m \ ■ )24 Patterson's t • down to his ship, and he would take me home. My joy 1 cannot describe; I went with the captain on board of (he ship, happy in the prospect of once more seeing nay native country. I fotipd on board a number of hands I was acquainted with when I wa^a boy, and 1 far- ed uncommonly weii, on any thing the ship afforded. At length all things being ready, in Janu- ary, 1810^ we sailed for the United States of I America. After being out a few daysr, h was discovered that our provisions were short, and all hands were put on an allow-j anc^, but I fared as well as the others. Our passage was favourable: and, we touched at an island, where we lay a few| days and got a number of' turtles, and a fev goats, which were a great help to lengthe out our provisions. ^ ** Litile.do the happy know» How to feel for sods of wo ; i'hey have pleasure, flatt'ring peace.; iStr^ngers uato keen distress. Bat, Neve Half I-' iiav< Fprfr Nakec Now t To be Gives thoui :N6ijei Rendk "Ever c JhaveJ .l?l<^w' Nowi Happyl €ouWl Hilff] They Crown KiflllUtnrc. ns But, with all their' glowmgg^ee, Never yet these once did spe, Half the pleasdre and -tbe-l)!!!!. Which doflll 90W: my JMttrtpOMftM . » ' ' • ■ y - ■t, Miave ^U the ^ead <>f ,^ief ; F^i'frooi'A^ery kind relief ; Naked, siqk , .alone .and Inm^t J^arfrCim.eTevy,teK^djer4^t!ii^ ; , NoW to see a prospect rise^' To behold my native place ; Gives a pleasure, I belierve, T^hoDsand^ never 9an .conceive. tNbne^crt ihoset^ho long-have known, 'Rending eorrow pressing down^ liveriean have power tot«Al, ^'Rapl^tes which il ^now^>feel. nNow I aaibfromTegiointAvtld^ ^ WJiere s^ nether ^sf^rii^sHVQre! ctiillld .; IfOiO^nhappy nativeriihiPT^* ^1 hav.e.«een the vifo^i^j^^ ,PW'd the briny o^eain road ; Kow my soul transported chime^, Happy, happy native climes. Conld Ai^ericans but guess, 'H41f the blessings tK^ poetess ^ They would view their native clift, Crown'd with heaven's highest gifts. - 11 ;y !-.* ~ iv ■J ^^m wmummmF 136 •PATTERSOirHl r-- Now I hope to ae^ again. Long estranged Fredonia's plain ; Mortal tongues can. never sl|0Wt Pleasures like to those 1 knpifl^' "»■■■■■ After a passage of about '^e month9 anL a half, from China, round cape Good 'Hope] vre arrived safe atNewportin Rhod^ Island] We tarried here one day and then pressed u{ the river to Providence, and arrived there or the ninth of June* • • . . ■ ' Thus, after an albsence of almost sTx yean 1 once more beheld the land of Fredonia baying B^enjgp^^rMj distant, and extremely differeni'%egions^ b^ this world, wiib thoa sands of th^J^fiDb^bitaiits. The field fpir re Hect ipn^ .^^ ^H^ < freasts of th urilderness in improveihents s^-^naHed, u ^tfviliaed, andjjreying on their own Aes What a change, ^nen the hoJy pm the religion of Jesuit ^h^Il jplossess t&e 4)eart of all ment . 'My returhlieing by Gape Good Mope, wit «btne others I can say} '-1 bav€ beep roun lUie world*'*^ l The sehttd restorec here a i thing of my dooi saving,^ did not ] ^ny one ing a 8C£ my broti . %■ ■! r_ij ■ cOurp: the first subsided mother t 'Cii^itcd i fleptions, may evei cxperien My fa to Chai UlilUIATIVC. 1«7 19 am Hopel [aland] serl u] eie 01 years donia remel i thod for re fltanc of thi aw b 'Tht kind attention of captain Aborn to me, and his bringing me once more to the place of my nartlvJty, may I ever bey^^tt'^iii to heaven for; and so long as my heart shall bed t, the name of Aborn will be dear to me. ^ The hands were discharged, and V was seiit td the hospita], where I expected to be restored to my. health a^ain* "* J remained here a number of days without hearing any thing of my friends *, but one day sitting in my door, a man came up and spake to me, saying, " How fare you Sam? 1 looked, but did not know him ; thinking it could not be 4)ny one that I had ever feaiied with ; but see-* ing a sear on his temple, 1 knew him ; he was my brother. ^i,3 *afcell -Our roeetj'ng was quite affecting, an^ after tiy£ ^ J theirs t impulse of our passions had a little ^ ^ J subsided, my brother informed me that my ^^g)] mother was dead, and in her grave, which Sles J"^'* i^^d ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ cutting and painful re- fi.^gjJ fleptions, and such as I pray no other one ^ I may ever be suffered to Jay a foundation ta )e, wii roun experience. My father had gone to to Charleston ; my two tbe -southward eldest sisters %\ mmmmmm 128 -fATVowKm^a were mcfrried, ahd one of them had gon( some distance in the country. Hear- ing of my arrival, my brother and young- est sister had come to Providence to se( me. .* " Fortun Prospect Joy sprin Many a p But a «a<] Pain and Yet thi« f Jesus piti Brought 1 Gave a U A lotteri I I '"t S contn noTiths, b (^as unab! ■^ walk* I had a )art of it Academy )riz« of fi Contract lim two louse in IfARAATtyc. 1^9 CHAP. XXIV. '* Fortune condescends to smile, Prospects now my woes beguile, Joy springs up, and hopes revive^ Many a pleasant day to live ; But a sad reverse I know, Pain and sickness lay me low ; Yet this cup this Lord did bles9» / Jesus pitied my distress, Brought me first his love to know, Gave a taste of heaven below.*' A lottery prize , and a severe Jit of sickness. I continued in the hospital abowt three noTiths, but did not recover my health ; I vas unable to work for my support, *or even walk» *■ . * ■ ■ '. . -^ - ■ ■ , 1 had a small sum of money, and with a )art of it 1 bougbt a ticket in the Smiihfieid Academy lottery, \%hich in autumn drew a )riz^ of five hundred dollars : I then madf a ontract with A, Waterman to board with lim two years> and went and lived at his louse in Smithfield. V v'.; ■-: ill] ii3o CATJEIUOSi'd In the latter part of this time I went t( Boston, and was in the hospital there fifleei weeks, under the care of skilful physicians] hopicg to gain the use of my limbs ; or, i possible, to obtain some help from medica skill ; but I rcceivefl no benefit, and return] ed to Waterman's again* Late in auiumn, 1815, i the pleasant* things of this worlds Ij with an unthankful heart we are suffered possess the tender mercies of iieaveh. i^n wilVjiatever, as means, effects our turning to ge ani od, we should bless his ni^me unfeignedly acaf fj.and always, in whatever condliti^n' of pre ex [igien/ce we may be in, use our utmost eHi^ ble fo lavour tP }^arn to resign, lade I ointe it m ^ ' • ^ )art p mor tp m5 over ius }g chill , mucjl }eakh %'\ ^m ■4til mm mi 132 « PATTCESON'9 a "!;'•■ a CHAP XXV. *^ Lord, obedienlly Til go, Glacll}r leaviDgall bdow ; Only ihou my leader be, Jesus, 1 would follow thee> LoDg I Ve urgM a wretched course, Straying farther gcowing worse ; From my childhood to this day, I have prcss'd the downward way. Thus r still had rucVd along, Hardesi'd with the v^iddy throng, Had aot God, in sore di&tress, ShowM the misery of my oasel" *■' J^y Christian Expiritnce* In giving the account of the wpr| of- J{raj on my poor immortal soql, itwilt l>e necesi ry to go back ; and soo^e thingis may here mentioned, which havcf been touched uj in the prieceding chapters* " . It possibly niay be the case, that the rej tion of my conversion from the' kiiig4oi» darkness, may not> iii som^ pdrtlcil1al%v c( resppndjvith the ezperience of every oi who an that scat account all tKgree susGhrii f was bill different thrb^ugh (hat theit ontk wen that they God in C f shall Btatetnent tHst^s Bi ing sinnei may be g speak of men. And, ki roti are k ioni for I 10 Nicod< :ept a ma fingdom c '»i mm But, to It sick NARtlAt t. 135 i€ rel mi: wy 01 who dl*e real christians : it is my opinion/ that scarcely any two give exactly the same account! on every p^int ; but in this, I think, all tfgree, all can day, wh6 love bur Lord Je- , 8US Ohrist, " One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.^' We may be leH by different meansy but every child of God is led through Christ to him ; and ail who know that their Redeemer lives, know thai they oncb were dead in trespasses aiid in sins, and that they were sav^d by the free grace of IGod in Chriat. ^ t shall endcaviouf to gtvean ungarnished iBtatemeni of the mercy which God for ChHst^s sake alofie^ has had on me a perish^ ling sinner. My greatest desire i s^ that God Imay be glorified ; and, for this ertci, I would Ispeak of his goodness, to the chikbren of Imen. . And, kind reader,, whe ever thou art, while ftm are here beholding what the Lord has Jone for ine, remember the Words of Cbrirt |lo Nicodenius, when he said unto him ** Ex^ , cept a man he born ^ahi, he cannot nee the tinjgdom of ^od,^ This is a siiibject of the >M and mdst mofnentous importance for ^y one to uttisnd^i^o* Bttti 10 procledi A4 iie time vh^n 1 IS sieM at Havana ^with she yellow ftlrei^- ift R 1 134 fattebsok's I'F being about epveiileen years of age* my sltw^ .ivere brougbllike mountains befoie me, and 1 verily befievejj that if I died in th^ state { hat I then viewed myself to be in, ! must be forever miserable. 1 made the Lord ma- ny promises, that if he would raise me up again, and restore my health, by tjhe assist- ance of his gracj^e, I would lead a new life* I and the Lord looked In mercy upon me, he^rd iny cry, and granted my request. ButJ alas ! soon were all my promises brokeri«fr ■:fii woul tect I tive I in fai and n when there Th, to sps loved^ when helpec kne0^ My repentance was like to the morning cloud, ana early dew, whic}?so^n do disap- pear, too common for sick bieds. Was it njt| ihsnkf for the long sufTering goodness, and the fdr-j bearance of heaven, what would become o the poor soul that can trifle with his promisei to Almighty God ? My propei gaiionj to me made 1 went on -, when in gales of win^, or an peculiar danger, I still made fair promrsesj ,go% :hi till I had so many times brokeik them ^ that WRS actually afraid to make any further en gagements. ' I -was a I Aevue At length when shipwrecked amon| tan I hear< nibals, strippctd of all mv clothes, naked, ani relate exposed tardys of the burning sun by daji Again $ind chilling dews by night ; sick, bungrf ^ ut, i faint, and helpless, I again rtiicwed my,V6^ i>%ve to God) 9Qd one more promio<^d, that if U ny, an 4; NARRATIVE, >35 v^ woul(| spare my unprofitable life, and pro* tect me over the boisterous ocean to my na- tive "land, 1 would seek and serve the Lord ia faithfufness. I ivas so ignorant of God, and n)yself, as not to think that he was every where present, and that i. could serve him there asHweli as at home. *^ The Lord wa.^ pleased, jn tender mercy, to spare my li(e, and bring me to see my be- loved native country again. At Providence, '^ when my shipmates carried me on shore, and ^ helped me on to the wharf* 1 there on my. knees for a short space Ufted up my heart in thanks to God. ' ^' - --■- : ^."^'^ -■■■.-- -'■■' -: ^ <" '■ ■ 'n.k ny gitva^ le, and 4 state I must 3rd ma- me up assist- w life*; on me, U But, fcen.i fiofning \ disap as it not the for- . come oi IJy heart being unrenewed, I had not a r^romisei P'^^P'^'* sense o^^od^s mercies, and theobli- ■ gallons I was laid under for all his benefiis to me; I still went astiray. The promises I made when among the savages, 1 sooti ior- ,gt , ^adl puisued iLe slippery paths»of sin. . -- ^' ft ..:■ , ' ,^: ,y ''" ■ ;■•!• ^ - ■ !-.'' , -.v ■,-.■ .^..,..^ -, / W^iiy r continued at Providei^ce, there was a. ^reat reforihaiion at Biistol, where i frei|U€nlly visited, and attended meeting : I heard the converts express their joys, and relate their experiences, and my niiiid was agaiii arrested by the Mighty Spirit of God; ^♦U, to my sorrow, I gi^ieved the Heavenly ve by still continuing in ungodly compa** .*> ) « 1, or anj )r6mrses mithat rther en ■r-' ;ibai (, an m 'i ike bydaj , bungrj mfMtfV bat if h ny» ^^d pursuing wrong practicea. r-r* 1 . Jt A,. ■^ -^fi !■ ' m 13a l^ATTEKSaN^f At length, in my distressing sickness, oc- casioned by the. cold whicli ) topic at the Ai'liwright factory, my bins again if/ere bi*6ughl like mountains before me ^nd I v.cs brought to a realizing sense that [ stood ou fllippery FOcks, while, fiery biljows rolPd be- neath* My pain of body and sou) was in- expressible, and seemed impos&ibie to be en- duied* - ^■.■' ' '■■'■■' ■■'■'■■ ' •■ ' . , VHere s.. 3r me to remind my kind reader, how extremely improper^ and dangerous it appealed to roe to put off and delay a prep- aranon fbr death, till we are laid upon a bed of languii^hing sickness ; and have we not reason to fear, that this is the case with a great many .? While i n hea kh a nd prosper- ity, they put faraivay the evil day, and when siickness and distress come upon them, and death, the king of terrors stares the«iiJni the face, the great coniCernfr of the soul, like mountainti of l^ad roll upon them^vibU is of« tea too powerful for the strength of the well, and how poorly circunistajticed is the sick, and dying sinnei*, to endure the pangs of pungent conviction ! then the arrows ot the Almighty are within tberorthe poison where* of dnnketh up tht^ir spirits; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against them* Again ^^ forjcne^ jpromjii^s wef^ bronghc <3edrlyi'^] was in til rebel as could not scend to iiy times often bro While soul and gfodly woi dead,) cai ihe door a inct asked ery poo nd I do ^orld." I lot coniii liert in. pray wi nswer in y a sign This ho am kneeh Qd witjh u J in good I though 8 her WTC! my beha VAUKATlirE, 137 kJedrljr to my view \ and though I knew it I was in the power of God to snatch such a rebel as I, froofi eternal burnings ; yet I could not think the blessed God woujd conde* scend. to have mercy on me, who had so ma* Ay times ma^Je vows and promises, and as loften broke (hem. While in the midst of my distress, both oF- |sou] and body, one morning a pious and ;odly woman, Mrs* Potter hy name, '(since lead,) came to visit me, and as she opened ^be door and came in she called me by name, mcl aske^d bow I did ? I answered that I was ^ery poorly. She replied, ** I perceive it, md I do not xhiiik you are long for this rorld.'' . \ » I told Mrs. Potter that I thought I coulcjl pt continue long in the coniJiiion I .was leh in* She then aiked me if I wished her lo pray with me ? My heart being too full to> mswer in words, 1 expressed my willingness W a sign with my head* ' ' This holy and humble daughter of Abra- |am kneeled dowh t>y the side of my bed, id with uplifted hands and heart, she pray- in good-efeirbest for me : it really appeared though she had power With God and that , I her wrestling, like Jacob, she prevailed ^^^E*^' Ijiiy behalL i^ cit- m (!| m f' m iHllfiii ' li I^ 13B >At!nERSON% Aftef this ^he gave me s(ome exhortation, awd promised to visit me again ; which she! often did during my sickness to my great] ^comfort and satisfaction. To visit the sick is a religiotis daty, cleail] set forth in the word of God, and when prO' perly performed, is often blessed, both to th( «ick and the well. When low, pained am confined, the presence of a friend may b( strictly considered according to the words oi the wise man, when he saith, ** iron sharp] eneth iron : so a man sharpeneth the counj tenance of his friend.'' Those who have been confined, know the satisfaction of visit from a cheerful and pious friend ; i| seems to bind up their wounds, and heal thtij sorrows. ' -, .. ' ' "''* . .. The visits of God's people to the si^, e^ pecially to the suffering sheep of the flock fchrist, he r*iceiv€S as being done to himselj A little advice and prayer on ^ch ocGasionj if regulated by pruaence, should always attended to, excepting in some pecqliij cases, which Very aeldom occurs Ontbe sam« day that Mrs. Potter vjsitj tne,Rey^ Benjamin Sa bin 'called to see r «nd after having some conversation w4t|i respecting tlie Mate of my min4«ibie read, ' expla gospe fixe t'C ness ii the el( for hie andgs The and af iie sun| Deat And Frigl And Fondl Or i/ My FJy Kor Jesui Feel I NARRATIYE. 139 explained on, the twentieth chapter of (he. gospel written by St. Matthew, and this gave me t'O understand that there was a full- ness in God to 8»ve me, though I came in at the eleventh hour. It now being necessary for him to depart, he prayed with and for me, and gave me the parting hand* The next day Mr. Davis called to see me, and after conversing, and prating with me, Jie sung the following * , - ' - WW' ' ly by should we sftart and fear to die ! AVhat timorous worms wemorUls.ard! Peath is the gate to endless joyV And yet we dread. to enter there. I'hc pains, the groans, the dying atriA?, . Fright our approaching souls away, And we shrink back again to life, Fond of our prison and our clay« Or if mjf Lord would come and meet, My soy!iI would stretch her w i ngs in hnste^ V Fly fearless through death's iron gate» ^ Kor feel the ^r-rors as she past. Jesus c«n ma&e a dyibg bed/ Feel soft as downy {((liars are^ f I /.'•i' mmumi^ ■*r 340 PAtTCnSON's While on bis breast, I lean my bead. And breathe my \i(p out sweetly tbere^ ■:lr. He gave me to understand, that I must pray for myself } but it really appeared to me th^t 'I was such a sinner that H ^ attempted to pray, my prayers wouy not reach iiigher than my head. After he lef( live, i remained without any essential alteration three or foyr days : till at length,' oh the twenty-ninth of March, 1813, while lying and meditating on d^ath^ judgment and eternity, a pd ao weak in body that I could scarcely be hf^ard from my bed- room to the kitciien, the Lord Broke in upon me with the ii|;ht of his reconciled counte- nances and 8>vcpt tny load ojf guilt away. My strength was so renewedv as that I could shout the high praises of God ; the neigh- bors heard my triumphs of joy, and flq^ked in td behold a wonder of mercy* J . ■ ■ . . ^ ^* , / ' ■ , » , , \ $Ome appeared to have Ikit a light opinion t>f my raptures, and bade me be still : but 1 exhorted them to seek the Lord white he might be found, and to call tifSoh him while^ he is. near* Like Bartimeus I cried but the louder, or with the more .^.eal^ /or .4he objections against mi?«^ : , m^^m y H.: K/^HtLAttVE, 14^ .vjv! The elcmcnfs sieS^ td^ ^Siiged, and lib is passage of scripture came fresh in my Inincl, viz, ** Ask, and it shall be given you, |»eek and ye shall find ; knock and it shall be >pened u^nlo you : for every one that asketbr Ireceivetb : and he that seeketh, findeth : land to him that knocketh^ tt shatl be open- - « * ■ - It appeared to me Ihat there was a fullness |n Chris^t eiiough to save a lost and i^erlshing rorld of mankind ; and if any i^ere cast off a the great day of accduifits, tf hen ail must ippear before the tribunal bar of God to rlvp an account of the deedu done jn the bo- jy, the. blame must eventually be on ihf'ir )wn atoulders. It appt^ared that God had 10 laki the plaoof s^vation, that it was freej ' met alJ that .would come, migbt come and par* ike ol' thai water of life fireety* I felt at this time such breslgnatioii to the rlH of G od. that 1 dared not pray to be re* - ftored td-my former beahb>n(>*' ttV be tak^ way ^^ biit my prayefr was, X> Lord, not tiff /illy but thine be don«« ^ I remained much in this state until the? isd of May following, In.which time 1 re- ♦ koveredmy health so far, as that by the grace n God, I went forward in the ordinance of I'M 1 li -y/^v.-ix v**:. H2 riTTERSOKB baptism, adibihistered by Rev. J. Wincb.i and made a publick profession of religion. * ■ '• ■\ . * To make a poblick profession of the chris- .tian religion, is a soletL thing, and never will be an honour and«ornamenttome, unless 1 adorn that* I am not insensible of my need of daily assistance to live to (he glory of God. And may the Lord enable me tol overcome every besetting sin, and to woi-k| out my salvation with fsar and trembling* 1 have lost the d^ys of my youth and vig our, in the service of the en^my of souls, am now I have bM^t a poor palsied body to* ren der as a living sisicrifice to-^God. How jus it would have been, had I been left to peris' in my sins, but how unsearchable are th riches of Christ! and as a brand pluck from the fire, may I but live a life »hvay governed by his holy and blessed precepts. \ I But should it ever be sjffe^ed fo be th xase, that I should come' short too often, -ye ©ever may any be sb ^nwis^, %is from slic an unhappy circuoistance* to t^ink trtfe .re ligioa not of divfne origin, nor of the gr«ates importance. r <* God df my life on thee I call. And humbly jut thy feet I fall. Tbeli ,Ctoudi Out of My fen t>oei I Salvati TobiB O Lore Amidft My 801 Thy c< Dangei Attend WhoU And lei Thougl My Sa^ Letnei Force Friend lever Does n That *» \ irABRATtVe. 143 ^incb,9 When the great vtateriloods prevail, J Leave not my trembling heart to fail. The billoivs swell « the wioda are high, , Clouds overcast my wintery eky ; Out of the depths iu thee 1 call, My fears are great, my strength is imall. t>Qen not thy sacred word proclaim Salvation free in Jesus' name ? To him I look and humbly cry, Lord protect when danger's nigh. Amidst the roaring of the sea My soul still hangs her hopes on ^ee j Thy constant love, thy tender care, * Is all ihkt saves me from despair. Dangers of every 8hap« and name Attend the followers of the Lamb, Who leave the world's deceitfuf shore, And leave it to return no more. ■K. : • ^ ■ $ V ' Though tempest toss'd and half a wreck, My Saviour through the floods 1 seek, Let neither winds nor storpiy r^iin Force back my shattered bark again. Friend of the needy, unilo thee 1 ever will direct my plea ; Does not thy word still fix'd remain. That «* none shall Be<^k thy face in vain.-' ^vi 1: ''"i',-^' m M4 »ATXB1ltOIl'l That wer« a grief I could not bear, Didst thou not hear and answer prayer ; But a prayer bearing, answering God Sopporta me under every load/ It ■\;\ ' .. ' 7," ' ,>" ^'^'■-:^^' J^''>iyv^^> u»'#Ti;"'^"5'v»* '? •' : ; \ « » Ki:,' .i i'^ -n f^ .5 ^ ■ . ^^.I^" IflRAATfyB. 145 CHAP. XXVI. t •f = <' Checkered are the Scenes of life, Now we've joy^ anon have grief ; Vanity oj" VHiititiesi Mingles v^ith ali earthly joys. Groaning here beneath our lostd, Riedt alone w^ find tn God, Sick or weary , poo r or Christ can happify the saint. Those who dnce the Lord have known^ Cannot rest when he i$ gone, Nor Cat! any have his peaCCj But resigning all forjgrace." . ,, A /^w pccurrenceif and Conclusion. Being again able to be abroad, undfer seri- ous disadvantages, I founditneeessary to en- deavour to exercise what littleprudenee and ecdnomy I possessed, to live without being k burden to |aiyj^iei\x]$« My health was such as that J cotil(t not do anj^ ijcork of conse* (jiiefhte for iiiy supl^iott i aind the probability is, that I sjiall contjtnie almbst ^^ helpless crij^ple ti^qtogh lil^« The uscofonetrf tny 'r> ;1 "M the winter. . ^^In the spring dT^Wilff^':^^^ and went to school about six months* A:-^- L My palsiefj,lf|pjb«ing^ iik^ a^^ about me, and aiiljiepes beinrg gii^en up ^H recovery, about this tioie a iS^ilFut suirgeon of Providence, adfised me tb haye it ampu<» tated, sbelieving it wduld be muci;'fdr my comfort and benefit* Accordingly a cumber of my jMiarcbiftfnj^^^ dol. lars for the purpose ; but^ not being able to . procure enoiigb more for tlie ezpensei I gave up the i^a. ^i..-: I 0alled on, dib^ wbd'^hid grven {Sr am- |)ii|att09i an^ told them that I waft obl^ed tel relipqMH^ the propos^ pj^iraUoii ipr the wa^t: pf nioie moneji and ^ooered to retiiro theSn what [I had received^ tmt no ^ one wbiild aocept of it againi and 1 retainedl it lorotMer aocept uses. iiumi Englj pp"i ipppppiiiil NiftfiATIVE. tfate in axttumii of this year, I visited jn llie cppntfy, dnd m the winter foUawing re- turned to Briitdi^ and in the spring af I810, went 'to work with a sailins3r&r> wber^ I could busy myself a Ktile. ^ '^ i ' ■ ■ ■■;■ - - .l^ikr-: , ^, ■■■■""^''^ Al^out Jhis time* at :^istoi, I took pas* «ageoti Board the brig Friendship, fof l»ar- ^ tihico. 1 made this voyage for the btoefit ^finy health, which was in some small de* gree relieved, but my lameness contkiued as On this voyage I carried a little property, sometimes catloc! a venture, to make some advance upon ; but the market beino; uncom- tisOnly supptied, it was rather of a Ss&dvan* tage^toine*^ The foHp wing ifinter I spent at Glouces- ter. iiving ;withj!8t brother and ^^^ school* The spring s^djtimmer^^ w l spent among my iriends an^ acquaintance untilJu- 4y, when I visited my twin sister, married and living in Cheshire, whom 1 had not se6n for about iifteen years. • { Ai^rangement^ b¥?ir||: J»Q\iir made for the .punishing ;piy n^irt^iv^H pccaslpned me a nnm her pf jQi(iri>0ys to d| peren t parts af i?e w Englancj^ ^||<|l^f#wiwpti94| %64 tiis^^ t"j • 77/ •< ip^ ^m^mm^ ^?"iF '^^"PWWPilliii W ■ 'i.J"!M MIJPW" U8 FAT^Rfj^N.V t'.-%^'f ance which I have liberally received, from Jttany, ai^d P^ the fu'*t characier«, I feel a gratitude for, find woulda-escteetf^liy acknow- ■^•C All Glasses af people have b^en exceeding kirid to -me in my affliction, scanjefy a heart, 01* hand has been shut against mfe, but have adnnnist^red to my necesaities^^s oppoituni- ties have preaenled. , >, \, , The last winter, of 1816. 17, I have board, i&d a t Cheshire, in the fanii ly of my sistlr ; but now, like a pilgrim, 1 have neither house nor hom€ ; but would, in the best way that providence shall present, like a dependant crijature en God, seek a subsistence .among mfyfe]lo# beings. ^ ^ '/ ''—'"'" \ ' B, , " ' *'' *'■■' v" ' . . . ' "^ ' . ^ ' '« ■ Thus the reader has seen the ro¥ 6f the events of my life, and hasliad a brief account of the var iated scenes ei p^r ienced by an tth - lortunate man- ^ ^ , : , ^ t have not a wish to justify any thing wrdng in a^y part df my liife ;. but have abun- dant reason to be humble before God and m#, for much whicb surely has Been iiupro- per y many times* i>^hen 1 wa^'^oung, I was P^ffei*€d too much" to rftmble ^ m^ own plea(swe, as can net,er bht be itgarious to T."" 7 ^4R%Afr^fi- 149 [thing ibun- and ipro- |ngVJ own lus to jfiti^^il fiti^^ it is my, sincere ad vnie to cbil- driftb, not to. Ibiqk thfy ^e meh, when yot^pg, add knowing but a little m \he world* |i(u(^,will it Jbe 4or th« Jia^ppiapss of the ris- ing g^ticration, to be regula^ted by theii* j^u** pcrtors, tjdking. adVie^: ft^m , ^bo$e who are elder ihaJKbey. (^hikJren may Jlhijk it a hjir^^lyR to be re- 's ined,, but fortbe want of It, ininoiQ .is pf- s ^ .terijaiiia fQi^i\datji0n iqt t|ie, worst pif evij,s in ■ . r ,■.'■.■.■ . ' ... • 1 fWarn ehUdren to honour and comfort theijrvparents, that it may be well with^ibem : ithet^^rs.pf pa^^irls. wrungiottt by ibe ^iso- betli^pce of nngodly cbi!qfpn,.are ^ottlfid^in [b|5a vep ; ai^d in jr^ppn tance, ,or g . r> ailf c* ltion,Jwin ca^i to flow frpm the eyes 9r*tno;sie>5bo,c^re so Ub^ntjo^^d Sis to J^s abji;|^ej^^ their jpecause p^rfsnt^m^y be pppr, %nd not fe- kpect^bie in every p^rtkiijijarris^npfx? Ichildfento .sl^bttbi^in. M ik^y A^e poofi ihey.n^ay b*:y"*fiMPUs,,and t|i^ir ipov^rty fej^ nak^s it tbe mc^r^ nece8j»pry iL>r them |o ^^b^l :QmfpEted )?y ^h^ir bpli^yeid pgsprirHK r^if ih^yjre) npt so hpnpurftbUe as ^s cpuld be ■ % i; 1' (>.. It; ■1 _ I" I T^?" mim m^mmmm^ 150 ^AtTERSdS^* ^ishfed, the vicif^s of their cbil(?reh will sink! thera the de i»^v in drerespectabilily. There is ho exciise for children not to pos-J Bess a fili'al heart. Abuse, and neglect of! parents i^ a crime ranking \yith those of th< first magnitude. \ - ^ ■ ... , .. - What would I not give that I couTd but <)ncc more see my motlier in tiiis world, thai I might unfold the feeKrtg* of my heart td her. 1 hope all will forgive th« foibles oi my youth, andi^iso all my errors of oldei ■ ■ . ■ ,.>-< "! "■■ V '„•*,. . ■ . , -'']. ^' ■'■■ • Brother SAILORS, from my youth have been acquainted with your avocationl 1 have realized your pleasures, and youj feard and sorrows ; I hay« seen Something yoiU' successes, but much of the misfortunj incident to a seaman's life. The danger of the seas are many, but those who remaij upon pur happy shores are not their owl keeper^; whether on land, or on the boistef ous ocean, God alone can keej^ us safety, (hat rides upon the stormy skies, and thu^ dord when he pleases, can calm theTagii rparing wpters. Hiis wonders are to beset in the deep, and men of ^ our profession aj hijghly privileged with the voice of God Mb' providence^ Seeing then your depej NARRATIVE. 151 ance pjrGpd, and the greatness of his power, be p^auaded by the love which 1 have for you, and your dearest peace, to fear his iiame.V May you ijeyer be so impria3eAt as to Hghtly use his great aifid terrible name ; for he will not hold him guitlees that taketfj Jiis liame IB vain. Is it oot^too often the case, that what is called swearitig, becomes like a &^cond nature with some of you ? On one hoiir, while pleasantly ridipg oh the^ ocean, the most inconsistent paths are he ird : on the next, when death and destruction rise in dreadful fornis, that same tongue, which was jiist before blaspheming the God of hea- ven, now in the bitterest cries, is beseechisg the same G^d for heip ; ray affectionate bro- tbers^ these things ought not SO: to be. *6faliy swearing is an ey:il of all others, one that ^n affor3 a ieflecting person the least fancied satisfactioh. It isalso incon- sistent with the gentleman and so important a part of the community as you are, and nev- er fails in any one of whatever rank, to let his reputation down to the dust, in the minds of all good and considerate men. It has such an unreasonable appearance, for any mortail, who must drop 1 his J)ody for worms to e^t up or to be otherwise consumed, and whose immortal spidt must fall disembo- died into the hands of Almighty God, not la; reverence him with the most respectful I'M '!. i I . •! it Wl 1^2 PATTERSaN'g I language, th^t wb93oever can trffle^ with Jiis name, ought in justice to Bink into tjpie is^w- est contempt aoiong rational being, ijha any •erfeature in this world cas be hurled'^inio by the united disdain of all Qiankind. Butyd^barsirs, l,am not a stranger to, the power of habit, 1 do ^pl say ■ the power of temptation ; for 1 can^pt a^e a^y thir^g among beings 6f sen^ei that, can^ be pf'iginated by them, that can tenvpt, a, dyi.i^ creature to swear ; but the habit is* jsa po^weif ul, and s^- tan who ever is ypur enepay, j*,^(>, re9(4y ^^t ' your elbow, that .without, exertion, ,yoa wUI most iikely conjtinue ;in t^|^ |}^e of thjis bane of cjviljzed soc;iety, till, y our ^QnguaJssUen- ced by death* Tfien oi^ike, tjie atten)p»tj^^^^^^^ to break the charm, it ca^ be overcome* ' ' ' S wearying is but the scum pf depravity,, ^oy- erflowing frpm iHe rjsing pf the l^eart ags^jn^t our -Ililaker, and must always leijiye a sting Jbe* hind whep^^ey^rr^ec^^^^ IC yQu,wou1(^ pvercotne this fppliib ^nd ;m- .stpid sin, avoid those thii)gs ..wplch .will have a natural lenimcy to ^xcite it. Spjtan well knpws di^t this.is a (fod provpkin^,and He^ivjen^ daring cripe, an|d t|)at ike MQ^^ ^HIGH win inake a .sjg|ial displciy of his ,,WJE'ath against iu fjence you inay expect that ihq ^nwj c^ mai^Hlndj^iU,^^^^^ lay- N/&RAT1VE. 103 this :pect ing the most fatal snares 16 entaingle you In thFs wickedness. I kndw of nothing that s6 readily intrpdu- Ices this sin as intemperance. If you would [avoid this cjamning vortex, be temperate in the use of ardent spirits. When tha'liatural spirit^, of life &re not Inflained by strong dilnkr it ia impossible for the enemy to ob- i tain (hat adv^antage over yoo, as he may with ease when you have not be4»n careful lio keep out of his sn^re. Guard against ev- ery thing that may disturb the- peace, of a happy Jiallor. Love aMreveirente God, who is^alway? good to ybtft have an aflfec-: lion for your fellow men ; and' that you may be excited to tlsis, become well acquainted Iwith the HOLY BIBLE; this book shews us the great mercy of God unto us, and tin- [veils pup obligations to each Other, 0i»d if we Itake it foronr guide, we shaLlllove and adore lour heavenly parent, and regard all his peo- Ipieas children of the sanae family . ^ .■■':-^-' You are a numerous and respectable part four fello\v citizens; ybur calling is of great consequence to the world ; without your Rervices An^erica could not maintafn her tide of nalionaf glory -and as is your inipprtance, io may y out happiness be. May you truly bectame the subjects of the m 1i id* m MK- Ml ill ■I I- wm^ ' ■*' npipp^wMfiiippniippfPPPPf' mmw ■.'•'"w 154 \" '. PATTBHti^-S; . ^ f ; ^ .7 kingdom of heaven, and eierci9e all the graces of true religion ; 0|ay your Tights be ever protected, utittt you b&ve crbs^ed the narrow sea of tife,>aiid ai% saffe, and forever ^{esBed on the bliMfiil shores of immortality. f will ndwclOse in a soEi|;compdsecliKir my ■■"''■'■', i '■' J ' ■ . ■' ' ' ,'' . ..' ' > if e soBis if the iiainUi^^ 34f over the %(Hi, v ( ^mi^S^ iins ^r^ h^ olci^ntaifit R#aiimh9X^tiie8hb||-tvoy^|fr r Ojilifesaiin wiWefid; vi> coBie W()ther saifer ' V j >,. {.ook a^sten) on your life s^e ' Your way mark'd with i|in ; took a-head, see whtit;*ofa3||5^; ^ Vottllsoon fl>ttnderin ; > / j\^ hai'B ro<5k of deaths ^ill ' Soon beat o^t yout k^ei j iTour vessel and carijo ^ Will all sinlc to hell. ? ; ■■•ifi-'' lav hy vour oW qoTOaes, ^T wili do you noLf^od^ it ne'er will direct ypUj^ > , The right w«iy to dod/ P^i^ your^ lieUB^^theif s^or t- !•'■ A Spri T TriB T yow And Rem T] The W Bepi " Qi Whe \ 3 His s Vohii Now Btltha . t. ■.-; "■■'.•vf' ( ■."■>,, A^IVB, Ao4 4oiiH^U asleef^ You siDk io(tta '' left Spring aloft brotliar f^il^ur The broezc ndw is fair ; Trim your sails to the friniel ancl Those torments joik^H cl^ ; Your leadiiii; star J^tiS Keep fqit to your View^ Aud yoq'li weather iheJlii^rs, fie'll guide you sai^ tbir^ugii. , Remember th' old captani' The devil str aigl^tw^yy The crew that^yotfjijwl^ iHth Will lead you asti^ay ; Depart t^ir blaci ^olours^ Come uudfir the tedt Where J^esui is e^B»t#i| n . Tecob^est be ledf ■ -'^<:' ''■ . -■■. His standsild unfurled see, It waves through the air, y oluDteers are a comioig FrofQ ffir off ^d near ; Now 19 the tiitae brother sailor .N<> Uii^er dela;)r» ' B|oaba^rk now widi iesus, Good wages he*lh§i|y.'* 1%^ bounty beltgi^iff^^^ Tkt voj^ge cloft begin, ippp t m I -I •It' ii^ 1 ■n'-j '',•! If] is I I' 9! '.Hi: 160 TATl^igBaWM KA»iATfVE. Anil freedom frdm s^n : " ¥01] l^ii oil f6^ winr; And III I^DgOiy^^ will abohor '^' . .' v'^ Id the regions of glor^ FieeiVditt qdit^^sandihaVi^ Attchems'h^avy 1i^6 I ; ^^: Th<» tvavea of ten^f ajtlobs Will cease tfadir« lb roar, ^ * And t|li|^0Br8e breath of fooreas Disinasi thee DQiibpr^. \ *' ^ Yoiirtarpawl and wiitch^oat No t6n^4r jon'll wear, ;^ 6i|t.robes^oir brjglbt ^tli^jr -: :''" 41^ ^^inibg aifid lair ; A crown on tb^ head thit / Will dazzle the suctt^ And from glory to glor^ Eternally ruiM ; > f , -.*• ■-, i . •lobn ) Levi E David John B Joseph Sylsvar Luther Samuel Henry Azel S[ Thoma Henry H.C.I W. Jef Nathan EIiz"Gould Samuel B. Allen John. Gary Elisha Capron B^nckstone. Georgfc Davis Barnham Perish Bennett Wheeler George Smith Welcome Inman Simon VVheeler Moses Gatchill Brown Car6y Sterry Fiske* Levi Smith, Jr. Moses Aldrich^ |.^ Benoni Stone ;^ Daniel Daggett John W. Greene JohnGreenman Joseph Fletcher Diadama M ^Intire Lncinda Davis Cinthia Kittle Ol^y 7'hornton Epilraior Greene Appos Green Ebin Wilmouth L White RoQ."<'j Sibley Thomas Rathbone WilUam Goss, ir. William Cunliff Augustus Green Hiram WilmartH? John R^mi^ Freemakj John Bussei Isaac Aldrich Jonathan §mi4h Welcome Arnold Asahel Mann Stephen Davis Rueben Hopkins ; Henry Carr George Mann ^ Gilbert Read Lewis Stone *^ Ichabod Thayer Alanson Adams ^awtu^ket, ^ Banai Brown Sterry Jencks- Wm. Guarded Arnold Peters Gideon Gray Daniel Bennet Stephen Baker John Kennedy . Miller Mason Job Russell Barzillai Dean Robert Andersoxr P^ter Ruans John B. Read Edward Jencks ff?< ■■-<•*■ «0BSCRIBER& NAMiilS. U\ : ■ ...» J Whipple Wilkinson Qideon Crowell Reuben Ramsay Leonard Barnes ' Martin Patt > Simon Wilson George C. Foster Luther Gould William Jencks - _ John S. RobiusoQ J. B. Jencka Nathan P. Towns Samuel Angter James S. Hunt Nehemiah Barrows Joseph N. Jencks Geo. Robinson^ Jr. William L. Brown Simon Skesuck Rehoboth. V Zenas B. Carpenter E. Daggett Elnathau Jones Peace Gifford Juda Williston Patience Williston Dtan Gifford Noble Allen ^ Ezra Allen William Cole Melinda Mason Mendon, Mark Colvin Samuel Capr^n Nathwn Mowry > .Ezkiel Fovvler Thomas Williams Zacheuii Colvin Elizabeth Parker Laban Handy Henry Baker Benjamin Sternes. Samuel S. Brown Pardon Corey Job Luther Jill.son Darlinig Allice Wilbour William Wood Rowland Qhace William Wilcox Cumberland. Christopher C. Aldrich Sutton Jillson John Cass • ' ^ Jonathan Sweet Silas Gaskill Nathaniel Streeter Jeremiah J. Balloa Jobti Howard John A; Bullou William Brury V Harvey Simmons Aaron Williams Ariel Towne Nahum Morse, Jr. * '^ Sifiithjield, Hannah Dexler Seth Mojvry ' -4 ^^■^^wiippiifwwiippwipp^nppp MiV. James Luther "^ Peter Balloa Jane Dalrymple Ezekiel Conidtock Israel Mateson James C. Smith - Ahab Read ' Deborah ShelJoti; Lawton Taber Farnum Harris Andrew Waterman' Welcome Aid rich Simon Patt ^' Central Falls. Mary Hale James Johnston Jane Cooper Isrjtel Pierce Asa Keen* Hartford, Sylvester Fitts Sciiuate. Alexander Hunting John Foster R. Comstock Christopher Fenner Hugh Cole Darius Knight Henry C Smith Asnph Smith William Potter Halsey Eddy Burrilville, Jonas Green Martin Tift Lyman Emersoa Stephen. Lasell tJloctster .- Jerimrah Colfins Jeremiah Patterson Jonah Down Hezeki^h Smith Gordon 3rown . Job Arnffitrotig Warren, Joseph Short Swanzey. • George Peck C. L. Whitter Isaac Smith BristoL Daniel Gladding James D'Wolf Hardmck. Calvin Witherbee Thompion. L.Sherman ^ Chatham. James Crow el I Seth Harding Sandwich. Jesse Barlow I SYBSCSIBEIIS' NAMES. 163 Dennis, Stephen Nickerson Bellingham, Horace Paine Foster, Jesse Shippee James Tucker Alvira Cole Samuel Hopkins/ Philip S. Anthony Calvin Brown PawtuxeU Syria Chapman Douglass, : JesBe Morse Dedham> Jabez Byder Kiltingbj, Albigence Warren Upton, Reuben Wood, Jr. Taunton, NathanieiCiincoln) Jr. M. Codding Joshua Jackson William P. Child Robert Lincoln Gilbert Dean Wm. Allen Weat John Smith l^ekonk. William Whitman John StRndish Bratoa Carpenter E. M. Cornell Eleanor Wood L. Dean Henry Clemept George Underwood H. Daggett Preserved Cotton Ransom Hicks John J. Johnson • William Fisk N. B. Seaver Philip T. Peck Elisha Briggs JDaniel Briggs John Underwood Debias Buchard Josiab Hill Thomas Sweetland Otis Hawkes « ^Isaac Blanchard Samuel Morrks Joseph R. Baker Nehemiah Randall Ebenezer Walker Christopher Nichols Joseph Fenner JobnP- Slocum A. S. Greene Pearson Brainard Priestly A. Perry Ferdinand RadcliS Chester Fay John Bucklin Stephen Tuttl^ 4'-. 4 mmmm ^mmmmmmmiimm'^ifmm 164 SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES* l*» William Bertram Pardon Allen Falley Falh, Daniel Hunt Cbarbtt€ Wright William Douglas D. B, Mason Abraham Wilkinson Hi Faulkner Ray W. Lair^g Henry Austin ^ Lewis Chace Samuel Francis Otis Walcott John Keen €yntha Bly "; William Bakom t^^ George A. Vorse 1 Ariel Gook t Arnold Cook B.D. Campbell Huldah Wetherhed Otis Lee Joanna Wood ,Jv^ 'Asa Mason v Meltiah Hathaway Andrew S. Dexter ^ William Jennings James M. Dtexter Thomas Lewis Crawford Titus Charhstomn, (S, C.) J. B. Swift Wart, P, White ^' - ■ • >. - . • ■■* Jvorihbridge. Jennings B. Congdon Residence not known Gilbert Dean v ' ;^ Wm. Allen West ? J. S. Smith Wm. Bragg • Henry Uussell Jonas Ho! Ion F. K. Rathbone Zebulan Sprague Aldrich Paine Benjamin Hale William B. Spooner Job Head ,^*} I^Sjlvesler Fitts )■■' ^ P. Brown • v S. N. Kimpton Jr. William Bishop J. Noyes Joseph Hyle Jonathan Miller Charles L. Thurbca? i >Wm. IJurgess Rrchard Young H. N. Howard Thos. W. Latham J. AshtoQ . C. Sweert D. S. Southwick Lamed Tucker Wm. Brown Simons Benjamin Brown ' Charles Wescott Liman EmersQD, Ji^ 'hm gdon town ,-\ ',1- ner Jr. }0I> 3ns : £S V- ■■^ / ■ ■*'■ V^ »'u«' ,;4^f*. 74 lPATTKftSdN*fl Besulei these Moir^alli; c^moii at aH tiie tribest they have a i^ery extraoi nary one on the island of OiHiynee, at Tq hoi bay, which 18 yeqf'iai^e, and the covered With haltnan iikallB, the white pearance of which, is distoirer^ble at great^^iatancej bat otherwise it is like ui ']tiet>aier8« ■^'. mani)«ir'MtiHing^^e earth, is tni IHtti^er uncivilized nations,^ worth^p^ of jpartlcular observations ; Iheir soil i% ti fertile,; potatoes, cabbage, ipelons, yai md'other prodiice, grow Uixtiriantly, and iUiiiions of the year. .^•r >- M Tb^ Sandwich islands are eleven in n\ ber, extending from kit. il8 a4, to 1^3 16, land from long. ISO 84, to 140 «6, W. ^1 -are, 'Owhyb^; which is the kr^^st ad ^boutdob mHeatn chrcatnference, s contains TOiDoO people, in isivei^ |iayi|ge state^^Ranai, {¥. Wi. oJf Mow^, cbntams irbf>ut^00b iithabttaiits^^Mbr tiiicj-^ Tiihbwfofwa --^ Mor<^pi -^Wjaeht Atooi---Neefae^U)w«-*-4^ee^im*--'e£hDd ct»a. Nearly all these isfaindli are inhabij ITAaaATITB. n [nd the number must be greats and rery no- icable. Besides these meDtion is made of [nother, lying loathe W, S. W. of Taboorai m and fanoyi and visited, only for the por- ose of catching tqrtle and fowh. No oth- irs arenamediand it is likely that none ez» lit in that neighbourhood*; y .. / • •!« • ■ ': ■'■/ ;^ I: 7i ?ATTiC!t«ON*S CHAP XII. ^'1 long Vas 4)1ea8'd with airy scbemeil^ And spent my life in idle dreahM ; While I fur blies'd did pbaotoooi^ chace, In ranning ever ,^lo8t the race.'' A tecond trip to the North-west coast. But, after e feitr dc.^ s frot^ o»r first visit* ing the^ emperoif, we saw a sU^ lying ofifthe harbour, and 1 called my men^^ i0& ay canoe and w^nt ioff |o Iter, ftnel feiin#ker to be the HaihiUon of Bolton/ ca|>taija rorter ; and he being short of hands, took me and my ship- Riat^v into his service, and agreed to- give me 12 dollars a month and to raise mv wages if h to^ Claasel* Here yse^ ana some of' the cr^w^^were sent on- horefor wood ; and, the Indian^ girls came ith.som^ berries to trade with us, and one our' shipmates went round the point to radewith them out of our sights At thi»^ ime the ship fired a gup ; and there being any caAoes aldiig side, we; thought there as trouble on board, and- sprung into our* at and put off; but on looking iiack, vft aw the man that traded round th^ pointy irimming for the ship, with the Indians fol- wing auer in a caiSfoe^ and shooting arrows' him. We immediatefy put a bouf^bur boai * , ' wetit to his at sistanee, butcrbssing a reef e came' nigh^ upsetting, and were 'in confu*^ on : some wer^ fbr nrihg at the' Iddiaiis^ t J thought it not^ best; for fear ^f killinjg' me^ in the water; but wheti we caniei ithin a fe^^^odv of himthe cati^left hitif^ d we pidkfed^hfb up, but found hi^ badl^) ounded with the arrovN^ We carried him"^ ong side of the ship, and the sailors seein|p ' at was dope, as sopn an we had got hjm It of the boati flew in a great ra|e to the \m chesty and wHh muskets opened -a brisk* pQ the numerous Inrnocentcrtafuret abdul^ ship and kiiltel ^2^. great 'manyi» ;^^-* ' e^nexT morning a ca|n6,6 catne A^onj^ te 'with, an old womati urUx h^d br6ukl» •N t.': It FATTSMtHV her davgbt«r» thjat was w»und^ the . • ' li I fn consequence of this unpleasant afiair, the Indians were afraid, and refused to trade, but sent off a ilag of truce tp inform us that] they would aeain open a trade vrith us, pro- vided we would send an officer (o lie off ii one of their canoes, wfal^ich^he captain agteedj tpfdo ; but they had a plot in their heads tc taice our ship if possible, all tKe* whi^; tht captain's clerk went into^one of the canoei and lay off. They came on board of od wip and were tradingf wh^n the old cbiei £re a ^hout for all to leave the ship, and foi r canoe to r^n away with the captarn'j c)^l but luckily we topi; the old cMerj Stisier^ and the youngcluef|4lid tiirjp or t^ej ethers* : ' ; J vffbe savages offered the f.ler)| no injur] and on the n^ asorning sent a fla^ of tru( fp exchange pisoners; provided we wpul aneet them liaif wav« To this we egree^t ^^ myself and ^ye others of the crew were se^ sypfd to meet. them;, they also senta lai f jur .cir^oe with ihe^ clerk, and t^ o ptber jb^ to cb^my her. Aher atpl^g towi i^:'^- I , WAiUlJ^TIVlt. 7» (heniy they hauled off so far from our ship that we could but just discover her port holes: but at length the ex^ange was ef- fected« and I was. glad ; for we were too much in. their powef, if they had been dis- [posed to have risen upon us* The next day we ffot under weigh, aHd [traded; up and down the caast^pr se^ral weeksi and thed ran into Tadisco, aiil met the Vancouver and Psarl. 1 naw asked the captain to raise my wages according to agree* Iment, 'but he defined: I then asked to.be lischargedy and It was granted*' 1 then lwen( on board of the Pearl as a passehgert and embarked for the Sandwich islands, and after a fevorabl<^ passage arrived there* '■ ft. «■; >i£ -^..i- •*♦*■■+ ^'V^^.-A' i ^m^Kv'^^^ pp /^ k rATTf»igO!N^ A -4' v^ ■#■■ » #> €HAr; xm. >;l'^;'- ^ X « Tbou * liordi tbe PikM's part perform^t . AM giaide aivi guard me thro^ the storm ; . Pcfend me from each ilireat'niiig ilU CoDtrol the waves, say, **' Peai^e. be sUU*'' Third Mum •" 'Y- v . . -4 y^f- '*■ .1 •A ^ ? jCti^t. PjBnry aririvipl^ in tfaQ ship Mary- hind, (which was foro^erly a &k)op of war) from the coast of Pmi« and being bound to C^nCoa. 1 ^tered on beaid as a passenger, and embarked. We arrived at one of the Bashee iriands^inhabited by Spaniarda^wher e we stayed a few- weeks. After obtaining sup- plies, we sailedi and touched at another isl* and in the Chinese sea. Here we procured buffaloe, and other refreshments. We sailed asain, and after a favourable passage arriv- ed at Macao, a Portuguese settlement. Here we took a pilot and proceeded on ; but» 1 left the Maryland and went to work on board of the Dorothea ; but at leneth fell in with an English letter of marque, belonging to Port Jackson, captain Camel, and entered on^ board of her. We sailed and passed through a strait, where we stopped for refreshment ; *(»*. M|C^9D8«I|'S and after & long paSMge we arrived at New HQllaiid aad came to acchor In ?ort Jackson. While at Ibi»4^^b6e^ Qj^^^ on deck, th^t^- isme # yam qqiired it Ahere wereiii^Aaiericaos on board, and was inlbiih^l>f i^ a calli and afti^ a littfe'coiif^natiorif I'fpund, h0 Jiad nVed. in tbe neighbotift^c^d of my father, and infOrm^tl|m^ that my pareiite, and brothers and sisters were recently well* which .J Vv^ 'was very satisfying Hb ihs :^ A^er ia wbHe 1 felf ' in ;Vttl[ ^ ilipNilqft^ brir_ belonging to PrdNrtdehce, i6dtit6iiMf^dj by 1b, H. GoriEfy. la^ (bil vessel Was an fi&^j Kshman, that wanted td get into tbeBrttHK ser^vke, and ^th him f effected a change^ and went Oil iboard tb^ Am<^rican bh'g. ;'fi;^^^ > -> I :t. 1 ■'' ' \V •.- J. ■:; ) > v I / ' i !'■ r^:v'<'MJ:' i KARRATIVe^ n t New tifprk ''me aj [-found of my I itB, andl l^wbich] BU an- chaoget CHAP. XV. << 1 ne*er od death or danger thought, But still kept dashing on ; And thus oiy own destruction sought : . From clime to clime IVe run." ' . .* Sail for &ie FiBJee Islands.- On the first of May 1806, we sailed from I Port Jackson, and after a passage of twelve days arrived at Tongataboo* While lying mere there came two men to us, John Husk, [and Charles Savage, ar^d stated that the *ort-au*prince, an English letter of Marque, lad Ijeen taken by the savages, and all the lands massacred, excepting 21, and they rere two of the survivors ; but the others rere on different islands. These mim want- ed a passage, and we received them on board* ^hty also informed us that a chief by the mme ofTorki intended to rise on us. Great mmbers of the natives came along side, [nd we I: '^ a profitable trade with them for niMiber of days» Cn the 16th of May, it being calm, we 4d not get under way, and tkere came I I . pi I ; j ' , I 86 PATTERSON 8 140 canoes^ of savages alongside and went to trading: at length the chief, who had laid his plans to take us, made his appearance, and w< permitted him to come on board. We kept every man to his arms; but soonj one of the Englishmen who knew their signs and language, fold our captain that a signal! was given to attack us ; he asked by whoooj and was told by Torki the chief, who was| setting on the taffil rail. The captain thei pointed a pistol at him, at whieh he fell oil backward, and w^nt on board of his c^^noej At this time 1 was unwell, but w^^^c.!iei from below by the captain, and directed tj set on the hen coop with a brace of pistol] and a cutlass, and not let ipy weakness observed, for I was hardly able to wall The savages were soon dispersed^ and got immediately under way. TJ Shipz At this place we purchased quite a nui ber of canoes to carry to the Feejee island to purchase Sandal wood. This wood is great value in India, and is burnt there fore the gods, in an offering of sweet cense ; and the most pleasant fans are maj of it ; the oil of this wood is a perfume, vej delightsome, and is a rich fragrance for fj niture. Our voyage to the Feejee islai was priDiCipally to procure this article. * toucoed at a number of islands, and on 20th of June were nigh the place to whl we were bound. Or 17,4 ¥. IV thef( ^riec gave] ouni out ve8s< axe weni our loflgj impil balls alaol Husl wmm ^m VARRATIVi;. 87 CHAP. XVI. '* ThoUIeas of danger, all at ease, We calmly rode upop the seas ; But in one sudden, fatal hour, The scenes were changed." Shipwreck near the Feejee Islands, and our first getting on shore at Nirie, On the 20th of June 1808, being in S. lat. IT, 40 ; E. long. 179, at about eleven o'clock P. M. the Quan who h&d the look out on the forecastle, seeing breakers but just a Head, ^ried out with the greatest vehemence, and gave us the alarm : 1 then was sick in my bunk below, but with the others I jumped out ; but before we could get on* deck the vessel struck on the rocks, ^e catched the axe and cut away the rigging, and the masts went over the side ^ aad as. they fell broke our whale boat in pieces ; but we got the long boat out and put the money in it. to the Hmount of 34,000 dollars ; the navigating implements, fnuskets, a cank of powder and bails, cutlaases, and some of our clothes: we also lashfjd two canoes togethrr* and John and Wuu Qt'pwPs Avent on board of d8 riTTKiiefoR'f : at num- such as ibs«^ and ould not t we had of our take the carrying sick was of them hat| in iirhlcb Was itty pocket book which conlainad my protection and other papers ; but I savj^ them 'to understand that if they would let me retain my papers, they might freely have my hat and pocket book; but they took tht ^persand rolled them up and put them thro' the holes in the rims of their ears and wore them off. They then took from me my jack- et, Irowsers, and shirt, but 1 could not see what th^y wanted them for, for they were all nalced, and never wore any clothes of con- sequence. 1 now was left naked, but was not much ashamed, for all. around me were in the same condition. As 1 drew nigh the village where the officers and the rest of the crew were gone, and were eating of the pro- duce of the island, 1 saw a great awkward savage have the captain's silk coat, trying to fut in on for a pair of breeches or trowseri; went up to him "and took and put in on my- self, and then took it off and lianded it to |him, and he put it on and wore it off; and, iotwithstanding my situation I could not ut smile for a moment at his ignorace. I found ail my shipmates .in the same naki^d ituation with myself. The captain endeav- 'ed to encourage us, and told us that he ould try to pi^evfttl on this cbief to let U8 lave the long boat; and after about one eek he procured it and started off with his wo inateSf and two ^others, having first oUected as much of the money from ike 90 rATTER80It*S i'^v savages as (hey could, in all about 6000 «do!iar8« /■.'■■' When they sat off, the captain called us ^ down to the boat, gave us our charge, and shook hands with us. ^He told us that he was going to the island of Booyer in - hopes] of finding a shio lying there ; and if he die he would be bacK in the course of a week an^ take us olf ; he ordered us to collect whad itioney lye could from the savages, and take care of it, which we endeavored to doj though it was attended with considerable difficulty, for it was scattered extensivelj among the ignorant nativeSf On parting with the captain, no tongt can tell my feelings ; I then reflected on mi i past conduct, especially in disregarding m] inother, and leaving het a^ 1 had done, retired to a c coanut tree, and sat down ui der it gave vedt to a flood of tears. Those who went with the captain, werj Billy Gllekin chief mate, Seth Barton secoi matel Charles Boweii a son of judge Bo'iii^c on the Mohawk river and nephew of doct^ : Bowen of Providencei and John flolden. ;c The captain found an American ship Booyer, but did not return so soon as was ej |lcted, and not until after I was gone frc - •% NARAATIVe. 91 Nirie. He, however, at length came back,* but succeeded only to brin^ on his boy. The savages opposed him, and two of those with him were killed, and several wounded. He sailed for Canton, but before he arrived he put into port in distress, took charge of a Spanish sbtp, was cast away and died* Charles Savage, who was with us when we first landed in this melancholly place, could speak the language of this people, and was of great use te us as an interpreter. :■'> ^, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 121 |M us lit 25 2.2 ■ 4.0 12.0 F^II'M'-^ ^ 6" ► ^>. v y^ Kiotograpiiic Sciences Gorporcition 23 WIST MAIN STREiT WEBSTlR.N.Y. HSM (716)872-4503 \ S <^ < ^ 6^ i^^^ '^ «»^% '^^> '^' ^/^ ^ n PATTERSON^S the bread fruit tree leaves, made into a kind of paste, and fized among it. The dress of the women, is a band about six inches wide, and long enough to pass a- round the waist, curiously worked of j^rass and bark of different colours, called UeAy» This they fix around theu jnid(ile, with a lock of grass about six inches long hanging down before. Their head dress is the hair about six inches long Qxeil erect, scorched or burned with brands of fire to make it curl and keep its place ; they then place the ash-paste ^ver the whole head, which when diy ap- pears hke white hair powder. That their headsthusfixed may not be ruffled, or the dressing injured when sleeping, a stick cur- iously worked, of the size of a walking staff is Iklaced about five inches from the ground on small crotches, and on this they lay their heads across not far from the hack side of ^ne of their ears, while the rest of the body lies on thegroundy straw, or a mat, entirely lUiktd. i These people are well shaped, and of tomdy features in many iustances, th^r liaicblackand naturally strai^ht,and their skia Hfkeopper colour, excepting in a single in- •tanc'e we saw one who was white among ^Mneiait. as Steere and myself were walking OUl'l he was in company with a ]jai;cre < olleos^ tj aP f a u d i ithmtog he wasiiA £ttip|ieiuMild ■■^^' ItAaHATIVB* 9^ being; overjoyed, cried out, Hoif fare yott» shipmate i but the savages broke out in a S;reat laughter, saying, taw haw^ haw haw^ peppa hnga Feegecypeppa longa Feegee ; that Is, white man of Feegee. Whether any oth« era were white among them I never kuew« CHAP. XVIIL <*ShouId vengeance still my soul pursue. Death and destruction I must rue, Yet mercy can my guilt forgive, And bid a wretched being live.^' Mt/ dreadful sufferings at Feegee* > I WAS in a poor, lingering and debilitated state of health ; some times I could eat of the produce of the country, and sometinles I could not relish it, and almost starved for food. I would go into the huts and look up to the baskets which hung on the ridge*poi6' of the houses with provisions in them to keep from the ' ermine,— look at the chief ^s wife; and put my hantl on my breast and say, #lir« beur conur coaut^ which is, I am hungry, and she would give a piece of yam or potaloe* But, one day when we were very huoi^lpyt wo took a walk out to get some plantains, Jwil eameto a tree on which they w^erel^^fipe^ ili4iist order that we might liav6iolttiAl»M( 94 PATTEBSOM-S J.-T- another clay, we pulled off a few and buried them in the hot sand to ripen ; but looking up we saw standing on a hill, a savage, and he made at us full speed with his war club } 8teere run, but I being lame had to stay and take the worst of it t the savage came up and kicked me over, and kicked me after I was down, and left me for dead ; he then dug up the plantains and carried and shewed them to the chief. But I, recovering, gat up and went and entered my complaint likewise to. him, but he also was angry with me and I could get no redress. I continued growing weaker until my fee- ble limbs could no longer support me, and one day in walking out I fell and could not get vp^ at which the savages called Steere to ]hy assistance, and he carried me into the chief's hut. Here I stayed a few days and Fredas they did^ but one day they smel* Hng a noisome scent, laid it to a man in the hut, but he denying it,they charged it to me* The chief then ordered me to be carried out, ajpd placed in a hut they had built forthe l^rpose of putting in yams, but it had stood ■o long as to be much decayed. i , '^ . ■ ' . Vdr about five weeks I was unable accn* sideiahlc part of the time^ to go out of this hnt, or even turn utysell^ and endnred nixHre Ihau lOSsLbi^ can \e expneseed. Aj^mf- kedUing WAS \id^ a hard bta^ Auip l|!i»ifi«ii sd^& ' ^' KAKRATIVE* 9$ uried >oking e, and club i ay and up and r I was dug up dthem up and wise to, e and I my fee- me, and ould not Steeic to into the days and ley smel- an in the it to me. rried out, it for the had stood ble a ceil* )atofthis ired ntiMre the ground, on which, naked iind irithopta* By covering I lay* When it rained the wd- tec would pour upon me in streams, and the ground under me become mud, and the wa* ter around me be half deep enough to cover me« In this situation I was often obliged ta lie, being unable to move or help niysel£> Night after night without any human being near me I have spent thuslying in the water and mud ; while peals on peals of thunder^ ,. seemingly shook the very foundations of the* *-.... .^. , 100 pattbrsonIi During our stay here^ooe morning; a canoe came to this island, with one nian in it^ from one of the neighbouring islands, with whom the natives of thilb place were at war. He was.niistrustedtobea spy, and the savages drew up around him, and after discoursing a while with him, they found him to be a hos- tile chief, and with a clubgavehini a furious i^low on one sidevpf his head, and broke it to ^uch a degree that his brains ran out at his cars. As we knew the cannibal custom of these wretches, we told them it was utterly wrong, and that God would be angry with them for eating their fellow beings : and to gratify us they agreed to bury the spy, and took him away professedly for that purpose. But, about four hours after I was in the chief's hut, and a piece of this human flesh tolled up in a plantain leaf, was sent in for the chief's wife, and she eat it. I told her what she had been eating ; she denied it al £rbbed« But the captain took it into his care, agreeing to give it up when w While I remain with heavy heart, ''y^^f And drill through duli & cheerless trains^ Scarce preferable to savage scenes.*' My Shipmates sail for America^ and I take a Cruise with the Chinese against their Ene^ mtes. r-f Steere having the use of his limbs, afnd being able to do duty, went on board of the ship G— -, captain Grenville, bound to Boston, and thus he succeeded to get home ; but I, being lame, remained on the consni's hands a number of months longer. My oth- er shipmate sailed for New York. In the course of my stay here, the ^ Chin- ese were at war, and they employed an £ng« glish ship, called the Mercury, captain Will* lams : she was rtianned out by Europeans^ and the consul put me on board of her as a gunner's assistant. Being ready for sea, we sailed; and cruising about the Chinese sea twentyfour days, fell in with nothing of im- portance. We returned again, and I was sent immediately on the consuls hands as be* lore. After about three weeks, the Ann and J13 FATTElt son's Hope of Providence, Rhode Island, arrived here, captain Danie) OIney commander* This ship belonged to the same men, that the brig belonged unto, in which I was ship* wrecked* My heart rejoiced at thfs circumstancet and I was very sure in my mind now, of a t passage home* ■ ',■■•,'.'*- ' ' • . The ship lay here about six weeks before she was ready for sea : and, one morning as I ' was sitting in a door smoking, I saw captain Olney coming along, and being told that it was the last time he would be on shore before ; he sailed, I catted to him, and asked him if he could give me a passage, home ? but he . answered that he could not, as he had more hands than he had provision for already* This reply ^ went to my heart like a nak<^ • »word. MARRATIV1S. It3 CHAP. xxm. ^^Distant regions now farewell. To my native climes I sail : Blow, ye winds, ye tempests cease, Heav'n protect me o'er the seasi" Mt^ return to America* Not long from this, the Baltic of Provi- dence arrived, commanded by captain Jona- than Eborn : became up to Canton, and the consul informed him of me, and asked him if he knew such a person. Captain £born came and entered into eonveisation with me, to find where I belonged, and on his first speak- ing to me I called him by name, shook hailds with him, and told him who I was,-— that I was an apprentice to him when 1 was a boy, and that he was the first man that I railed with. He asked me what my name was ; I told him, and that I was his apprentice boy wh6n he sailed out of ProTidence in Butler's employ. After recollecting me, he seemed to be much affected with my misfoiliiB$Sv and told me to get ready, and go with him down to his ship, and he would tak^ me home. H /^ My joy I cannot describe ; I went^ with the captain on Wrd of the shipi li^^^ ill 114 PATTERSOK^S the prospect of once more seeing my native count 13% I found on board a number of hands I was acquainted with when I was a boy,and I far- ed uncommonly well, on any thing the ship albrded. At length all things being: ready, in Janu- ary, 1810, we sailed for the United States of America. After being out a few days, it was discovered tliat our provisions were short, and all hands were put on an allows ance, but I fared as well as the others. Our passage was favourable: and, we touched at an island, where we lay a few days, and got a number of turtles, and a few goats, which were a great help to Jengthen out our provisions. ' "Little do the happy know, How to leel for sons of wo ; They have pleasure, flatt'ring peace i Strangers unto keen distress. But; with all their glowing glee. Never yet these once did see, Half the pleasure and the bliss. Which does now my heart possesSi I have felt the load of grief ^ Far from every kind reHef i NARRATIYE. ^ ^^ . Naked, sick, alone, and lame« Far from evsry tender name : Now to see a prospect rise, To beliold my native place ; Gives a pleasure, I believe. Thousands never can conceive* None but those whp long have known. Rending sorrow pressing down, Bver can have power to tell. Raptures which 1 now do feel. Now I sail from regions wild, > Where my nether springs were chilFd \ Now the winds shall waft me o'er, To my happy native shore. I have seen the world abroad, Plow'd the briny ocean road ; Now my soul transported chimes^ ^3PPy> ^ppy native climes. Could Americans but guess. Half the blessings they possess. They would view llieir native diflb^ ' Crown'd with heaven's highest gifts* ^^^ Now I hope to see again, Long estranged Fredon ia'd plain % Mortal tongues can never show, > Pleasures like to Ihos&lkndW^ 116 rATTsmoii's After a passage of about Ave months and a half, from China, round cape Good Hope, we arrived safe at Newport in Rhode Island. We tarried here one day and then pressed up the river to Providence, and arrived there on the ninth of June. Thas, after an absence of almost six years, I once more beheld the land of Fredonia ; hflving seen numerous, distant, and extreme* ly different regions of this world, with thou- sands of their inhabitants. The field for re- flection, arising from but a little acquaintance with the state of many such parts of the earth is great ; how many of our fellow be- ings, with the exception of speech, scarcely can be said to.be before the beasts of the wilderness in improvements :«— naked, un- civilized, and preying on their t own flesh. What a change, when the holy principles of the religion of Jesus shall possess the hearts of all men! My return being by cape Good Hope, with some others I can say, «4 have been rbund the world.'* . The kind attention of captain Eborn to me, and his bringing me once more to the place of njy nativity, may I ever be grateful to heaven fers; and so long asjny heart shall beat, the OKm^of SbiOfQ mH be dear to iie. HAXllATIVEi ttf Ind Id. Ised 'ed irs. The hands were discharged, and I^ sent to the hospital, where I expected to hr restored to my health again* 1 remained here a num])er of days without hearing any thing of my friends ; but one day sitting ia my door, a man came tip and spake to me, saying, ^How fare you Sam {*' I looked, but did not know him > thinkinsT it could be no one that I had ever sailed with ; but seeing a scar on his temple, I knew him ; he was my brother* Our meeting was quite afiecting, and after the first impulse^of our passions had a little subsided, my brother informetl me that ntfy mother was dead, and in her grave, which excited in me the most cutting and painful re* fledtions, and such as 1 pray no other one may ever be suffered to lay a foundation ta experience. My father had gone to the soutliward to Charlestown ; my two eldest sisters w<^re married, and one of them had gone some dis- tance in the country^ Hearing of my arriv« al, my brother and youngest sister had come to Providence to see me. :C^*»-^r--. 118 pattersom's • CHAP. XXIV. '^Fortune condescends to smile. Prospects now my woes beguile, Joy springs up, and hopes revive, . Many a pleasant day to live ; But a sad reverse I know. Pain and sickness lay ^ue low ; Yet this cup the Lord did bless, Jesus pitied my distress. Brought me first his love to know. Gave a taste of heaven below." ■ . » A lottery prize^ and a severe Jit 9f sickness* I CONTINUED in the hospital about three months, but did not recover my health ; I wa9 unable to work for my support, or even to walk. ) > I had la small sum of money, and with a part of it I bought a ticket in tlie Smithfield Academy lottery, which in autumn drew a prize of five hundred dollars : I then made a contract with A. Waterman to board with him two years, and went and lived at his house in Smithfield. In the latter part of this time I went to Boston, and was in the hospital there fifteen w^eks, under the care of skillful physicians, Jiopiflg to gain the use of my limbs ; or, if NARRATIVE* 119 possible, to obtain some help from medical skill ; but I received no benefit, and retur- ned to Waterman's again. Late in autumn, 1812, I vent into the Archright Factory in Cranston, hoping to be able to do a little something to save my prize money, be comfortable and out of idle* ness. I continued here until the latter part of February, 1813, but was able to do no more than merely earn my board. While in this factory I had to walk to my board two or three hundred yards over a bridge, daily, and in all weathers ; thus go* ing from a warm stove into the cold, chilly,- and wet weather, and then i-eturning, much fatigued, was very prejudicial to my health ; I took a bad cold, and was taken down with a fever; and on one of my hips a large and painful sore gathered, by some, called a car- buncle, or thistelo. My sufferings were ex* treme, and it was considered impossible for me to survive ; preparations were made to dre^s me for the grave, the house appointed for all the living, and at one time it was thought that my spirit had departed W^* this distressing illness I was confined weeks, before I was restored to sov like my for;!ier feeble state of healti notwithstanding, the extremity oft iC m 120 Txrrtnsovrs mess, it was, undoubtedly, blessed for the greatest good to my prerious soul ; and was closely connected with the greatest mercy of closely connected with the greatest mercy heaven to me. The greatest afflictions which we meet with, are often productive of the greatest ijlessings^vhich we experience. Sicjkness is one of the means which God often makes use of, to brin^v souls to the knowledge of his son Jesus Christ. Indeed, it appears that no- thing bat some deep distress, and that re- peatedly, will bring some people to consider- ation ; smd that their souls may not be lost, lie suffei's the sorrows of death to get hold of them. And such sorrows, even the deepest troubles, when sanctified, are far better for 41S, then all the pleasant things of this worlds if^ witk an unthankful heatt weave suffered tQ possess the tender mercies of heaven* Whatever, as means, effects our turning to •Cod, ve should bless his name unfeignedly for, nil always, in whatever condition of ^xist^nce we may be in, use our utmost en- ^eavoor to learn to resign. \ "v^/*^**- \ T^ARRATIVE, I2t the was 3y of Imeet ktest less h CHAP. XXV. *'Loi(], obediently TJIgo, Gladly leaving all below ; Only thou my leader be, Jesus, I would follow thee. Long I've urg'd a wretched course. Straying farther, growing worse j From my childhood to this day, I have pressM the downward way. Thus I still had rushM along, Harden'd with the giddy throng, Had not God, in sore distress, how*d the misery of my case ft My Christian Experience, In giving the account of the work oT grace t)n my poor immortal soul, it will be necessa- ry to go back J and some things may here be mentioned, which have been touched upon' in the preceding chapters. It possibly maj^ be the case, that the rela- tion of my conversion from the kingdom t>f darkness, may not, in some particulars, cor- respond with the experience of every onei who are real christians: it is my opinion that scarcely any tMo give exactly the same- account on every point 5 hut in this, 1 thinks * all agree, till can say, who love our Lord Je- sus Christ) ^^One thing linow^ that^ wher/tfos n ;* 1S2 »ATT£RS0N*8 J was blinds now Isee.^^ We may be led by cliiferent meaDS, but every child of Go(] is led through Christ to him ; and all who know that their Redeemer lives, know that they once were dead in tiesspasses and in sins,and that they were saved by the free grace of God in Christ. 1 shall endeavour to give an ungarnished statement of the mercy which God for Christ's sake alone, has had on me a perish- ing sinner. My greatest desire is, that God jiiny he glorified ; and, for this end, I would ^peak of his goodness, to the children of men. And, kirid reader, who ever thou art,while you are here beholding what the Lord has done for me, remember the words of Christ to Nicodemus, when he said unto him *^£x* cept a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.** This is a subject of the • first and the most momentous importance for eveiy one to attend unto. But, to proceed. At the time when I was sick at Havannah with the yellow fever, being about seventeen years of age, my sins >rere brought like mountains before me, and I verily believed that if I died in the state that I then viewed myself to be in, I must be forever miserable. I made the Lord ma* Qy promises, that if he would raise me up a« NARRATIVE* 123 gain, and restore my hea]th,by the assistance of his grace, I would lead a new life; and the Lord looked in mercy upon me, heard my cry, and granted my request. But, alas I soon were all my promises broken. My repentance was like to the mornini; cloud, and early dew, which sooq do disap- pear, too common for sick beds. Was it not for the longsuffering goodness, and ihe for- bearance of heaven, what would become of the poor soul that can triHe with his promises to Almighty God ? I went on ; when in gales of wind, or any peculiar danger, I still made fair promises, till I had so many times broken tliem, that I wsts actually afraid to make any further cn« gagements. At length when shipwrecked among can- nibals, stripped of all my clothes, naked, and exposed to rays of the burning sun by day, and chilling dews by night ; sick, hungry, faint, and helpless, I again renewed my vows to God, and once more promised, that if he would spare my unproflitable iife, and pro- tect me over the boisterous ocean to my na- tive land, I would seek and serve the Lord in faithfulness. I was so ignorant of Gd^ and myself,as not to think that he waseveiy' where present, and that I could serve him t bere as w ell as at home. 124 FATTERSONS The Lord was pleased^ in tender mercy^ to spare my life, and bring me to see ray be- loved native country again. At Providence, ^hen my shipmates carried me on shore, and helped me on to the wharf, I there on my knees for a short space lifted up ray heart in thanks to God. ,-1.. My heart being unrenewed, I had not a porper sense of God^s mercies, and the obli- gations I was laid under for aH his benefits to me ; I still went astray. The promises I made when among the savages^ I soon for- got, and pursued the slippery paths of sin* While I continued at Providence, there was a great reformation at Bristol, where I frequently visited, and attended meeting: I heard the converts express their joys, and relate their expeiiences, and my mind was again arrested by the Mighty Spirit of God ; but, to my sorrow, 1 grieved the Heavenly Dove by still continuing in ungodly compa- By^ and pursuing wrong practices. At length, in my distressing sickness, oc- casioned by the cold which I took at the Archright factory, my sins again were brought like mountains before me and I was brought to a realizing sense that I stood on slippery rocks, while fiery billows rollM be- neath. My pain of body and soul wa& ia- KARRATIVE* 125 rcy, be. expressible, and seemed impossible to be en* (lured. Here suffer me to remind my kind reader, how extremely improper, and dangerous it appeared to me to put off and delay a prep- aration for death, till we are laid upon a bed of languishing sickness ; and have we not reason to fear, that this is the case with a great many ? While in health and prosper- ity, they put faraway the evil day, and whea sickness and distress come upon them, and death, the king of terrors stares them in the face, the great concerns of the soul, like mountains of lead roll upon them : this is of- ten too powerful for the.strengthofthe well, and how poorly circumstanced is thesick, and dying sinner, to endure the pangs af pungent conviction ! then the arrows of the Almighty are within them,the poison where- of drinketh up their spirits : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against them. * Again my former promises were brought clearly to my view ; and though I knew it. was in the power of God, to snatch such a rebel as I, from eternal burnings ; yet t could not think the blessed God would conde- scend to have mercy on nie, who had so ma- ny times made vows and promises, and as often broke them. . ^ 11* '\W^ m\ 126 PATTERsOrS Wliile ill the midst of my distress, both of soul and body, one morning a pious and godly woman, Mrs. Potter by name, (sine* iTead,} came to visit nie, and as she opened tliedoor and came in she called me by name, and asked how I did ? I answered that I was very poorly. She replied, "J perceive it,and I do not think you are long for this world." I told Mrs. Potter that I thought I could not continue long in the condition I was then in. She then asked me if 1 wished her to pray with me ? My heart being too full to answer in words, I expressed my willingness by a sign with my head. This holy and humble daughter of Abra- liam kneeled down by the side of my bed, and with uplifted hands and heart, she pray- ed in good earnest for me : it really appeared as though she had power with God and that in her wrestling, like Jacob, she prevailed in my behalf* After this she gave me some exhortation, and promised to visit me again $ which she oftei^ did during my sickness, to my great comiTort and satisfaction. To visit the sick is a religious duty, clearly set forth in the word of God, and when pro- per^y performed, is often blessed, both to the sick and the well. When loW| pained and MA&RATIVZ* isr confinerl, the presence of a friend may be strictly considered according to the words of the wise man, when he saith, *^Iron sharp- eneth iron : so a man sharpeneth the count- enance of his friend.^' Those who have been confined, know the satisfaction of a vis- it from a cheerful and pious friend ; it seems to bind up their wounds, and heal their sor- rows. The visits of God's people to the sick, es- pecially to the suffering; sheep of the Aock of Christ, he receives as being done to himself* A little ad\'iceand prayer on such occasions, if regulated by prudence, should always be attended to, excepting in some peculiar eases, which very seldom occur. On the same day that Mrs. Potter visited me, rev. Benjamin Sabin called to see me,and after having some conversation with me re- specting the state of my mind, he read, and explained on, the twentieth chapter of the gospel written by St. Matthew, and this gave me to understand that there was a full- ness in God to save me, though I came in at the eleventh hour. It now being necessary for him to depart,he prayed with and for me,* and gave me the parting hand. The next day Mr. Davis called to see me, and after conversing, and praying with me, he sung the folio wiug isa pattersom's HYMN. t. Why should we start and fear to die ! What tim'rous worms we mortals are \ Death is the gate to endless joy. And yet we dread to enter there. The pains, the groans, the dying slrifcy Fright our approaching souls away^ And we shrink back again to life. Fond of our prison and our clay. * O if itiy Lord would come and meet. My soul would stretch her wings in haste^ Fly fearless through death's iron gate. Kor feel the terrors as she past. Jesus can make a dying bed. Feel soft as downy pillars are, . While on his breast, I lean my heacT, And breathe my life out sweetly thtre. He gave m^ to understand, that I must pray for myself ; but it really appeared to me that I was such a sinner that if I attempted to pray, my prayers would not reach higher than my head. After he left nile, I remained without any essential alteration three or four days t till at length, on the twenty ninth of March* 1819, while lying and meditating on death. NARRATIVC. 129 Judgment and eternity, and so w«ik in body that I coul 1 scarcely he heard fiom my hnid room to the kitchen, the Lord broke in upon me with theli^ht of ]iis reconciled counten- ance, and swept my load of guilt away* My strength was so renewed, as thnt 1 could shout the high praises of God ; the neigh- bors heard uiy triumphs of joy, and flocked in to behold a wonder of me icy. Some appeared to have but a light opinioD of my raptures, aud bade me be still ; but I exhorted them to seek the Lord while he might be found, and to call upon him while he is near. Like Bartimeus I cried but the louder, or with the more zeal, for the objections against me. The elements seemed to be changed, and this passage of scripture caine fresh in my mind, viz, *« Ask, and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find ; knock and j*^^ shall be opened unto you : for everyone that asketh, receiveth : and he that seeketh, findeth : and to him that knocketh,it shall be opened 9> It appeared to me that there was a fullness in Christ enough to save a tost and perishing world of mankind j and if any were cast off at the great day of accounts, when all must appear before the tribunal bar of Ood to give an account of the deeds done in the bo- dy, the blame must eventually be on thou it i' I 13^ fATTlRSOM*! own shoulders. It appeared that God had so laid the plan of salvation, that it was free« and all that would come, mis;ht come and par- take of the water of life freely. I felt at this time such a resig:nation to the will of God, that I dared not pray to be res- tored to my former health, nor to be taken away ; but my prayer was, O Lord, not my will, but thine be done. I remained much in this state until the 22(1 of May followinf?, in which time I re- coverd my health so far, as that by the grace of God, I went forward in the ordinance of baptism, administered by rev. J. Winch, and made a publick profession of religion. To make a publick profession of the chris- tian religion, is a solemn thing, and never will be an honour and ornament to me, unless I adorn that. I am not insensible of my need of daily assistance to live to the glory of God. And may the Lord enable me to overcome every besetting sin, and to work out my salvfiition with fear and trembling. I have lost the days of my youth and vig- our, in the service of the eneiwy c)f souls, and now I have but a poor palsied body to ren- der as a living sacrifice to God. H w just it would have been, had I been left to (lerish in my sins, but how unsearchable are the 1 MA&KATXVI* 13t riches of Christ ! and as a brand plucked from the fire, niaj I but live a life always gorerned by his holy and blessed precepts* But should it ever be suffered to be the case, that I should come short too often, yet never may any be so unwise, as from such an unhappy circumstaTice, to think true re- ligion not of divine origin, nor of the greatest importance* ••God of my life on thee I rail, And humbly at thy feet I fall. When the great waterfloods prevail. Leave not my trembling heart to fail. The billows swell, the winds are high. Clouds overcast my wintery sky ; Out of the depths to thee 1 call, My fears are gi-eat, my strength is smaH* Does not thy sacred word proclaim Salvation free in Jesus'name ? To him I look and humbly cry, O Lord protect when danger's nigh. Amidst the roafing of the sea My soul still hangs her hopes on thee ; I'hy constant love, thy tender care, Is all that saves me from despair. Dangers of every shape and name Attend the followers of the Lamb, 132 vatterson'b Who leave tlie world's deceitful shove, And leave it to return no more. Though tenipest-tossM and half a M'leck, My Saviour through the floods I seek, Let neither winds nor stormy rain Force back my shattered bark again. Friend of the needy, unto thee I ever will direct my plea ; Does not thy word still Bx\i remain. That "none shall seek thy face in vain.'* That were a grief I could not bear. Didst thou not hear and answer prayer; But a prayer hearing, answering God Supports mt under every load." KARRATlVCt CHAP. XXVL ^*Checkcr'(] are the scenes of life« Now we've joy, anon have griefs Vanity of vanities. Mingles with all earthly joys. Groaning here beneatli our load, Kest alone we find in God, Sick or weary, poor or faint, Christ can happify the saint* Those who once the Lord have Ifnon* Cannot rest when he-is gonei Nor can any have his peace. 13i But resigning all fur grace w A few Occurrences^ mid Ccnclusioiu Being again able to be abroad, under ^erw OU8 disadvantages,^ found it necessary to en« deavour to ex'ercifie what little prudence and economy I possessed, to live without bein^ a burden to my friends* My health was such as thai I could not do any work of conse- quence for my support { and th« prcbabilitjr is, that I shall contir«ue almost a helpless cripple thri)ugh life* The ^^se of one of my k|^s is so gone, as that there is no prospect of my ever having it restored to me again* Through tbe expense ofmy sickness, and otker means, my money began to run shorty and I spent the sumiiier ot l f l^i aod a jj^t Hi lU Patterson's oftlie autumn following, among my friends antl relations ; and late in the fall I went to a sister's in Tliompson, where I spent the winter. In the spring of 1814, T went to Bristol, and went to school about six months. My palsied leg being like a dead weight a- Ijout me, and all hopes being given up of its recovery, about this time a skillful surgeon of Providence, advised me to have it amput- ated, belie\ ing it would be much fo my CO mfort and benefit. Accordingly a lui i^ '. sr ©f my friends contributed about twenty dol- lars for the purpose ; but, not being able to procure enough more for the expense, I gave up the idea. I called on those who |iad given for amp- utation, and told them that I was obliged to relinquish the proposed operation for the want of more money, and offered to return them what I had received,but no one would accept of it again, and I retained it for othei uses. til Late in autumn of this year, I visited in the country, and in the winter following re- turned to Bristol, and in the spring of 1815, went to work with a sailoiaker, wherq I ^ouid busy myself a little* NARRATIVE. US About this time, at Bristol, I took passage on !)oard the biipj Friendship, for Martinico. 1 made this voyage for the benefit of my health, which was in some vSinali degree re- lieved, bat my lameness continued as beforew On this voyasje I carried a little property^ sometimes called a venture, to make some advance upon ; buttlie market being uncom- monly supplied, it was rather of a disadvant- age to me. The following winter I spent at Glouces- ter, living with a brother and going to school. The spring and summer of 1816, I spent a- mong ray friends and acquaintance until Ju- ly, when I visited my twin-sister,married and living in Cheshire, whom I had not seen for about fifteen years. Arrangements being now made for the publishing my narrative, it occasioned me a number of journeys to different parts of New England. The subscriptions, and assist- ance which I have liberally received from many, and of the first characters, I feel a gratitude for,and would respectfully acknow- ledge. All classes of people have been exceeding kindtomein my affliction, scarcely a heart, or hand has been shut against me, but have 136 rATT£RSON*lS adininisfered to my necessities, asopportun* lies have presented. The last winter^ of 1816-ir, I hare board- ed at Cheshire, in the family of my sister f but now, like a pilgrim, I have neither iiouse nor home ; but would, in the best w«y that providence shall present, like a dependant creature on God, seek a subsistence smong my fellow beings, Thus the reader has seen the run of th^ events of my Iife,and has had a brief account of the variated scenes experienced by a;i un- fortunate man* I have not a irish to justify any thing wrong in any part of my life ; but have abun- dant reason to be humble before God and man, for much which surely has been impro* per at many times. When I was young, I was siifiered too much to r&.iibleat my own pleasure, as can never but be injurious to youth ; and it is my sincere advice to child- ren, not to think they are men, when young* and knowins^ but a little of the world* Much will it be for the happiness of the ris- ing generation, to be regulated by their su- periors,^taking advice from those who are older than they. Children may think it a hardship to be re- strained^ but for the want of it|in tiieuiaof* NARRATIVE, 137 ten laid a foundation for the worst of evils la riper years. I warn children to honour and comfort their parents, that it may be well with them: the tears of parents, wrung out by the diso- bedience of ungodly children, are bottled in heaven ; and in repentance, or deep afflict- ion, will cause floods, with great bitterness, to flow from tiie eyes of those who are so a- bandoned as to thus abuse the means of their existence* Because parents may be poor, and not re* spectable in every particular, is no excuse foe children to slight them. If they are poor, they may be virtuous, and their poverty but makes it the more necessary for them to be coiuforted by their beloved offspring ; if they are not so honourable as could be wish- ed, the vices of their children will sink thein the deeper iii disrespectability. There is no excuse for children not to pos- sess a filial heart. Abuse, and aeglect of parents is a crime ranking with those of the first magnitude. What would I not; give that I could but once more see m> mother in this workl^ that I might unfold the feelings of my heart to her. I hope all will forgive the foibles of my youth, and also all my errors of older lif«« 12* 138 PATTERSON^S Brother SAILORS, from my youtli I have been acqiiainterl with your avocation ; I have realized your pleasures, and your fears and sorrows ; I have seen something of your successes, but much of the misfortune incident to a seaman's life. The dangers of the seas are many, but those who remain upon our happy shores are not their own keepers ; whether on land, or on the boister- ous ocean, God alone can keep us safely. He that rides upon the stormy skies, and thun« ders when he pleases, ran calm the raging roaring waters. His wonders are to be seen in the deep, and men of your profes^on are highly privileged with the voice of God in his providence. Seeing then your depend* ance on God,and the greatness of hi^ power, be persuaded by the love which I have for you, and your dearest peace, to fear his name. May you never be so imprudent as to lightly use his great and terrible name ; for he will not hold him guiltless that taketh )iis name in vain. Is it not too often the ciise, that what is called swearing, becomes like « second nature with some of you ? On one hour, while pleasantly riding ontheoc- , can, tho most inconsistent oaths are heard ; on the next,when death and destruction rise in dreadful forms, that same tonpue, which "was just before jt)laspheming the God of hea* Yen, now in the bitterest cries, is beseeching^ the same God for help ; my affectionate bro* thers, tliese^hlDgs ought not 80 to be* ,v««»- *'''*\ KARRATIVE. 139 Profane sweaviuq; is an evil of all others, one that can afford a reflecting person the least fancierl satisfaction, ft is also incon- sistent with the gentleman and so important a part of the community as you are, and nev* er fails in any one of whatever rank, to let his reputation down to the dust, in the minds of all g^ood and considerate men. It has such an unreasonable appearance, for a- ny mortal, who must drop his body for worms to eat up or to be otherwise consumed, and whose immortal spirit must falldisembo* died into ^he hands of Almighty God, not to reverence him with the most respectful language, that whuioever can trifle with his name, ought injustice to sink into the low- est contempt among rational beings, thait any creature in this world can be hurled into by the united disdain of all mankind. But, dear sirs, I am not a stranger to the power of Aa^/f, I do not say the power of temptation ; for I cannot see any thing a- mong beings ofsense^ that caA be originated by them, that can tempt a dying creature to swear ; but the habit is so powerful, and sa- tan who ever is your enemy, is so ready at your elbow, that without exertion, you will most likely continue in the use of this bane of civilized society, till yoj^tongue is silen- ced by death. Then makiw% attempt, 4rf ■ to break the charm, it can be overcome* f 140 patterson'3 SweariDJ? is but tlie s^um of depravity, ov- erflowing from the risiHg of the heait at^aiiist tin Maker, and must always leave astiug be- hind when ever reflection takes place. If you would overcome this foolish and in- sipid' sin, avoid those things which will have a natural tendency to excite it. Satan well knows that this is a God provoking and Heaven daring crime, and that the MOST HIGH will make a signal display of his wrath against it. Hence you may expect that the enemy of mankind will be ever lay- ing the most fatal snares to entangle you in this wickedness. I know of nothing that so readily introdu- ces this sin as intemperance. If you would avoid this damning vortex, be temperate in the use of ardent spirits. When the natural spirits of life are not enflamed by strong drink, it is impossible for the enemy to ob- tain that advantage over yon, as he may %vith ease when you have not been careful to keep out of his snare. Guard against ev- ery thing that may disturb the peace of a happy sailor. L-ove and reverence God, who is always good to you ; have an affect- ion for your fellow men ; and that you may be excited to this, lecome well acquainted #iththe HOLY >BIBL£ j this book she^\» us the great mercy of God unto us, and tin- veils our obligations to eacli other, and if we IfAllllATITr. 141 tale it for our g^uide, we shall love and adore our heavenly parent, and regard all hit peo- ple as children of the same iaaiily. Tou are a numerous and respectable part of our fellow citizens ; jour calling is of great consequence to the world; without your services Americacoald not maintain her tide of national glory ; and as is your importance^ 80 may your happiness be. May you truly become the subjects of the kingdom of heaven, ' and exercise all the graces of true religion ; may your rights be ever protected, until you have crossed the narrow sea of life, and are safe, and forever blessed on the blissful shores of immortality* I will now close in a song composed for my BROTHER SAILOR. YE sons of the main that Sail over the flood, Whose sins are high mountains That reach up to God, Remember the short voyage Of life soon will end ; O come brother sailor Mak:e Jesiis your friend* 142 Patterson's Look a-stern on your life see Your way markM with sin ; Look a-liead see what torments You'll soon founder in ; The hard rock of death will Soon beat out your keel y Your vessel and cai^jD Will all sink to hell. Lay by your old compass, 'Twill do you no good, It ne'er will direct you The right way to God ; Mind your helm brother sailor And don't fall asleep, Pray and watch night and day lest You sink in the^deep. (Spnng aloft brother sailor j/The breeze now is lair ; gfrim your sails to the wind and Those torments you'll clear ; Your leading star Jesus Keep full in your vie v, And you'll Aveather the dangers, He'll guide you safe through. B^meniber th' old captain The devil straightway. The ciew that you saii'd with k KARRATIVK. i4r> Will lead you astray ; Depart their black colours, Come under the red, Where Jesus is captain, To conquest be led. His standard unfiiri'd see, It waves through the air, Volunteers are a coming From far off and near ; Now is the time brother sailor No longer delay. Embark now with Jesus, Good wages he'll {^ay. The bounty he'll e:ive when The voy'ge doth begin, Is justification And freedom from sin : Good washes he'll give while You sail on the way. And at len^^th you will anchor In heaven's broad bay. In the region s of glory Forever you'll ride. Free from quick-sands and dangers And sins' heavy tide : The waves of temptations Will cease there to roar, ''T' 144 FATT£li80ll*8 hC* And the hoarse breath of boreas Dismast thee no more* Your tarpawl and watchcoat No loDger you*il wear* But robes of bright glory All shining and Iftir; A crown on thy head that Will dazzle the sun. And from glory to glory Eternally run. FINIS. 'S.?: