Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

29C. RETURN TO ENGJ/ANU.
in all that time never heard aword from home,
I knew not who was dead or who was living,
or where to go next; or even how to pay the
coachman. I recollected a linen-draper’s
shop, not far from thence, which our family
had used. I therefore drove there next, and
making myself known, they paid the coach¬
man. I then enquired after our family, and
was told my sister had married Lord Carlisle,
and was at that time in Soho-square. I im¬
mediately walked to the house, and knocked
at the door; hut the porter not liking my
figure, which was half French, half Spanish,
with the addition of a large pair of boots, co¬
vered with dirt, he was going to shut the door
In my face; but I prevailed with him to let
me come in.
I need not acquaint my readers with what
surprise and joy my sister received me. She
immediately furnished me with money suf¬
ficient to appear like the rest of my country¬
men ; till that time I could not be properly
said to have finished all the extraordinary
scenes, which a series of unfortunate adven¬
tures had kept me in for the space of five
years and upwards.