, _Family Instructor_, and other pieces,
has imitated it with success; and Richardson has done the same in his
_Pamela_, etc.

When we drew near the island, we found it was at a place where there
could be no landing, there being a great surf on the stony beach. So we
dropped anchor, and swung around towards the shore. Some people came
down to the water edge and hallooed to us, as we did to them; but the
wind was so high, and the surf so loud, that we could not hear so as to
understand each other. There were canoes on the shore, and we made
signs, and hallooed that they should fetch us; but they either did not
understand us, or thought it impracticable, so they went away, and night
coming on, we had no remedy but to wait till the wind should abate; and,
in the meantime, the boatman and I concluded to sleep, if we could; and
so crowded into the scuttle, with the Dutchman, who was still wet, and
the spray beating over the head of our boat, leaked through to us, so
that we were soon almost as wet as he. In this manner we lay all night,
with very little rest; but, the wind abating the next day, we made a
shift to reach Amboy before night, having been thirty hours on the
water, without victuals, or any drink but a bottle of filthy rum, the
water we sailed on being salt.

In the evening I found myself very feverish, and went in to bed; but,
having read somewhere that cold water drunk plentifully was good for a
fever, I followed the prescription, sweat plentifully most of the night,
my fever left me, and in the morning, crossing the ferry, I proceeded on
my journey on foot, having fifty miles to Burlington, where I was told I
should find boats that would carry me the rest of the way to
Philadelphia.

It rained very hard all the day; I was thoroughly soaked, and by noon a
good deal tired; so I stopped at a poor inn, where I stayed all night,
beginning now to wish that I had never left home. I cut so miserable a
figure, too, that I found, by the questions asked me, I was suspected to
be some runaway servant, and in danger of being taken up on that
suspicion. However, I proceeded the next day, and got in the evening to
an inn, within eight or ten miles of Burlington, kept by one Dr. Brown.
He entered into conversation with me while I took some refreshment, and,
finding I had read a little, became very sociable and friendly. Our
acquaintance continued as long as he lived. He had been, I imagine, an
itinerant doctor, for there wa