ID: | 1082 [see the .xml file] |
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Identifier: | NLW 5500C, no. 73 |
Editors: | Transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019) |
Cite: | 'Thomas Pennant to Richard Bull 23 November 1788' transcribed by Ffion Mair Jones; edited by Ffion Mair Jones; encoded by Vivien Williams. (2019) in Curious Travellers Digital Editions [editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/doc/1082] |
Desr Sir
Downing Novr 23d - 88.
I should not so soon have troubled you with the nothingness of my Letters was it not to request you to make the enquiries
contained in the inclosed:1 & to bring them up with you to [...]town; for probably we shall reach the capital much about the same time viz: Decr
16th. I shall give you then some account of my that [sic] I have travelled all over London:
the coast ^ofspain from Font-arabia,
& along that of Portugal to Calpe:2
crossed over to Barbary, & coasted [...]Africa to the cape which I doubled with less difficulty than Vasco di Gama;
kept a long the mosambique coast, turned into the red sea:
crossed it with the Israelites & stopped short in sight of the Land of Promise,
which I trust I shall reach i[...]n due time.3
This I give you in lieu of country news: for we have none. all minds are filled with moralizing on the uncertainty of human affairs: & in sincere pity of the unhappy state of the poor king:4 whose condition we most truely lament. We look up to the young Julus: the young Henry V. & most heartily wish the parallel may hold in the dismission of the misguiding companions of his youth.5
Adieu
Yrs most truely
If you keep yr Christmas in the isle Pray inclose to our friend T. Huntsouth audly street: for I have not heard when my house is taken.