Thursday, June 27.--This morning the captain, who lay on shore at
his own house, paid us a visit in the cabin, and behaved like an
angry bashaw, declaring that, had he known we were not to be
pleased, he would not have carried us for five hundred pounds.
He added many asseverations that he was a gentleman, and despised
money; not forgetting several hints of the presents which had
been made him for his cabin, of twenty, thirty, and forty
guineas, by several gentlemen, over and above the sum for which
they had contracted. This behavior greatly surprised me, as I
knew not how to account for it, nothing having happened since we
parted from the captain the evening before in perfect good humor;
and all this broke forth on the first moment of his arrival this
morning. He did not, however, suffer my amazement to have any
long continuance before he clearly showed me that all this was
meant only as an apology to introduce another procrastination
(being the fifth) of his weighing anchor, which was now postponed
till Saturday, for such was his will and pleasure.

Besides the disagreeable situation in which we then lay, in the
confines of Wapping and Rotherhithe, tasting a delicious mixture
of the air of both these sweet places, and enjoying the concord
of sweet sounds of seamen, watermen, fish-women, oyster-women,
and of all the vociferous inhabitants of both shores, composing
altogether a greater variety of harmony than Hogarth's
imagination hath brought together in that print of his, which is
enough to make a man deaf to look at--I had a more urgent cause
to press our departure, which was, that the dropsy, for which I
had undergone three tappings, seemed to threaten me with a fourth
discharge before I should reach Lisbon, and when I should have
nobody on board capable of performing the operation; but I was