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68 Documents no more than 24 hours from Dundee here 3 of which we lay too. At 9 AM I went ashore to Newcastle in Compr with MfBell and 5 others who were passangers along with me, and after drinking a English poynt of ale a piece I enquired at the Pilots and others if there was any Vessel presently at Newcastle bound for Holland but found there was none. At same time was informed that Sunderland was a more proper place to look out for a ship bound there. . . . Muiiday, J"* Jaif, 1774.^ This day snowing very hard, Wind at N. N. E. At 9 AM went out to see if I cou'd sell any stockins, but re- turned again at 10 AM without selling any ; I then paid my bedd for two nights which cost me 2d. each night at same time sent out for worth of bread and id. worth of cheese for my breackfast and I found both bread and Cheese far less for the money than at Dundee. Yesterday I neither eat nor drank any thing all day but my dinner which cost me 64- and Just now I am Master of no more Cash than is. i^d. and when I shall get more God only knows. At 11 AM Crossed the River to South Sunderland and Called to see Wm. Scollay, but was told he was not at home, after that I traviled the Town untill 2 pm in which time I sold three pair of stockins for four shillings and four pence, which was eight pence less than they cost me in Zetland. I then returned home and bought id. worth of bread id. worth of cheese and id. worth of small beer which served me for dinner and supper. Wednesday^ Sth. Wind and weather as yesterday, this afternoon I hear of a Brigantine called the Nancy ready load for Holland, and that she always used that trade. Thursday, 6th. Wind at S. and a verry gentle thaw, at 8 AM I went to Warmouth- and spacke with Mr. George Lacen [?] Com' of the Nancy Brigantine, who informed me, that he himself was not sure where he was to go. But that I might speacke to M' John Taylor the Owner which I immediatly did and he told me, that if the Rivers was open the Nancy would go to Holland, if not probably to London, and that I was ex- treamly welcome to my passage. I then waited on Mr. Lacen and aquanted him of the same, and imediatly put my trunk and bundle on board Freiday, 7th. Got out of bedd at 6 AM this morning, at 8 AM went, at 9 AM they began to haul out of the harbour and came to an Anchor in the Roads at 10 AM and lay in the road untill four keels of Coals was put on board, each keel being Twenty Tun, and they were all Onb;" by half an houre past noon. At i pm got under saile with the wind at N. B. E.^ with a verry high sea runing, a great deall of which she shipped all this afternoon, steered until midnight S. S. E. ' 1 At Sunderland, where no ships for Holland were to be found, the ice in the Dutch rivers precluding the voyage. 2 Monk Wearmouth, opposite Sunderland. 3/. c, north by east. « From this time till noon of the nth the brigantine sailed along the English coast, finally coming to anchor at Portsmouth, where the captain went ashore to sell his coal and where Harrower vainly sought passage to Holland.