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late place---never will it be erased from my memory, the joy l experienced at pereeiving a sail at a distance: in my excessive joy, I climbed a tree, but l was at a loss then how to attraet their attention: at length l devised a plan---l tied my shirt to one of the branehes 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 whieh l reaehed the ship, whieh proved to be a Dutch merchantman. l was eonveyed to Amsterdam, where l was taken before the British consel, to whom l discovered my sex, and related the whole of my sufferings. He offered to proeure me a passage to England, but l 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 whieh time l was in serviee with an English family residing there. At the end of that time l proeared a passage, and travelled 300 miles in seareh of my lover! l at length sueeeeded in diseovering the plaee he was employed in, and applied to his master, who kindly permitted us to have a private interview, whieh were the happiest moments of our lives. My pen cannot describe our feclings on this oeeasion---we ran to eaeh others arms, while tears of joy ran down our cheeks. I was so overcome, that I fell down insensible, and when l recovered, my lover was standing over me in breathless anxiety. After embracing eaeh other affectionately, I related the whole of my sufferings to him, for whose sake I underwent them.
While l was relating them, we shed tears of joy and sorrow alternately, and at the conelusion he embraced me, saying, he hoped God would prolong our days,
