When the job was finished, I took my little budget of clothes and started for home.

I traveled the first day as far as Elizabethtown, and stopped there all night, but found no conveyance from there to New York.

I was told that if I would go down to the Point, I might in the course of the day, get a passage in a sailing vessel to the city.

I went down early in the morning and, after waiting till noon, found a chance to go with two men in a small sail boat.

I was greatly alarmed at the strange motions of the boat which I thought would upset, and felt greatly relieved when I was again on terra firma.
I wandered about the streets of New York all that afternoon, bought a quantity of bread and cheese, and engaged a passage on the Packet Sloop Eliza, for New Haven, of her Captain Zebulon Bradley.