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 ( 22 ) Tom. And what business do you follow after at pre- ſent. Pady. Arra, dear ſhoy, I am a mountain ſailor, and m ſupplication is to follow.

PADY' Husan DETITION, OR SUPPLICATION.

Good Chriſtian people, behold me a man ? wh has com'd thro' a world of wonders, a bell full hardſhips, dangers by ſea, and dangers by land, and yo I am alive, you may fee my hand crooked like a fool foot, and that is no wonder at all, conſidering my ſuffer- ings and ſorrows ; oh! oh! good people I was man in my time who had plenty of the gold, plents the ſilver, plenty of the clothes, plenty of the te the beer, beef and billet. And now, now, have ad thing being taken by the Turks and relieved by to Spainards, lay ſixty ſix days at the ſiege of Gibraltar, an got nothing to eat but a wreck, and raw models; the put to ſea for our ſafety, caſt upon the Barbarian coari among the woeful wicked Algerines, where we were to ken and tied with us and teddere, horſe locks and cow chaina: then cut and caſtrate yard and teſticles quite way, if you will not believe, put in your hand and fe how every female's made ſmooth be the ſheat-bone, whes nothing is to be ſeen but what is natural. Then masa our cape to the deſert or wild wilderneſs of Arbia, where we lived amongſt the wild siles, upon wind, fand, and ſapleſs ling. Afterwards put to be in the hell of an of houſe: were we were teſſed above and below the cloud being driven thro' tickets and grove by fierce, cours calm and contrary winds at bait was call away upal Soliſbary plains, where our veſſel was dath'd to plece againſt a cabbage ſtock. And now my humble petition you good Chriſtian people is, for one hundred of your her one hundred of your batter soother of your chele, of your biſket, a tun of you let, a lee of your rum, wit a pipe of your wine, a luxop of your gold, a plece of you ſilver, a few of your halfpeace ofartuag, a wanghio