Instead of complaining of the treatment he had received, and of the degradations to which he and his companions had been subjected, he spoke of it all as so much prudent submission, on his part, to the customs of the countries in which he happened to find himself, and as the means of ascertaining a thousand important facts, both moral and physical, which he proposed to submit to the academy in a separate memoir another day.

At present, he was admonished by the clock to conclude, and he would therefore hasten his narrative as much as possible.
The Doctor, with great ingenuousness, confessed that he could gladly have passed a year or two longer in those distant and highly interesting portions of the earth; but he could not forget that he had a duty to perform to the friends of two noble families.

The Journey of Trial had been completed under the most favorable auspices, and the ladies naturally became anxious to return home.

They had accordingly passed into Great Britain, a country remarkable for maritime enterprise, where he immediately commenced the necessary preparations for their sailing.

A ship had been procured under the promise of allowing it to be freighted, free of custom-house charges, with the products of Leaphigh.