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tied up my Wages in my Shirt. Now I had a confuſed Speech, for I ſpoke a Mixture of Languages, Earſe and Engliſh; and here I providentially went into a Public Houſe, where my own Brother, with his three Partners, who firſt brought me from the Iſland of Tirrie, were ſitting. My Brother did not know me, but what was ſtrange, one of his Partners did; and after ſtedfaſtly looking upon my Brother, I felt ſome very uncommon Emotions, which at laſt made me fly to him: We were both in Tranſports for ſome Time; and my Brother, who was in the Belief that I had fallen out of the Boat at Greenock, and had periſhed, inſiſted upon my going Home to my Father, whom he had made believe that he had left me with a Gentleman, tho' he was of Opinion himſelf I had periſhed at Greenock, as is juſt now ſaid; I returned Home in my Brother's Veſſel, and was put to School, where I was taught to read and write. But my wandering Inclination grew upon me ſtill; nor could I be prevailed upon to ſtay at Home from the Sea: So I left my Father's Houſe, and went aboard of Capt. M'Cun, belonging to Greenock, who was Commander of the Little Marion, who came to an Anchor at Icolmkill, near Tirrie, by Streſs of Weather: He carried me up to Greenock, and was glad of me, as he intended I ſhould have continued aboard of his Ship: However, not liking his Terms, I agreed with Captain Grey of the Mattie, belonging alſo to Glaſgow, and the ſame Company, then bound to Virginia. I ſtaid aboard this Ship four Years, and was in all fifteen Years in the Company's Service. And the Occurrences which happened to fall under my Knowledge duringthis
