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 late place---never will it be erased from my memory, the joy lI [sic] experienced at pereeivingperceiving [sic] a sail at a distance: in my excessive joy, I climbed a tree, but lI [sic] was at a loss then how to attraetattract [sic] their attention: at length lI [sic] devised a plan---lI [sic] tied my shirt to one of the branehesbranches [sic] of the tree, it floated in the breeze, which they perceived, and knowing it to be a signal of distress, they sent their boat to my relief, in whiehwhich [sic] lI [sic] reaehedreached [sic] the ship, whiehwhich [sic] proved to be a Dutch merchantman. lI [sic] was eonveyedconveyed [sic] to Amsterdam, where lI [sic] was taken before the British consel, to whom lI [sic] discovered my sex, and related the whole of my sufferings. He offered to proeureprocure [sic] me a passage to England, but lI [sic] preferred to stay there for a time, in hopes of getting a passage to New South Wales. But no vessel presented itself for the space of two years, during whiehwhich [sic] time lI [sic] was in servieeservice [sic] with an English family residing there. At the end of that time lI [sic] proearedprocured [sic] a passage, and travelled 300 miles in searehsearch [sic] of my lover! lI [sic] at length sueeeededsucceeded [sic] in diseoveringdiscovering [sic] the plaeeplace [sic] he was employed in, and applied to his master, who kindly permitted us to have a private interview, whiehwhich [sic] were the happiest moments of our lives. My pen cannot describe our feclingsfeelings [sic] on this oeeasionoccasion [sic]---we ran to eaeheach [sic] others arms, while tears of joy ran down our cheeks. I was so overcome, that I fell down insensible, and when lI [sic] recovered, my lover was standing over me in breathless anxiety. After embracing eaeheach [sic] other affectionately, I related the whole of my sufferings to him, for whose sake I underwent them.

While lI [sic] was relating them, we shed tears of joy and sorrow alternately, and at the conelusionconclusion [sic] he embraced me, saying, he hoped God would prolong our days,