Wesley Corpus

took no notice. A second passed near: We made signals and called; but they would not stay for us. Athird put out their boat, took us up, and set us safe on shore." 6 REV.J WESLEY'S [Jan. 1774. Fri. 17.-Meeting with a celebrated book, avolume of Cap- tain Cook's Voyages, I sat down to read it with huge expectation. But how was I disappointed ! I observed, 1. Things absolutely incredible : " A nation without any curiosity ;" and, what is stranger still, (I fear related with no good design,) "without any sense ofshame ! Menandwomen coupling together in the face ofthesun, and in the sightof scores of people ! Men whose skin, cheeks, and lips are white as milk." Hume or Voltaire might believe this ; but I cannot. I observed, 2. Things absolutely impossible. To instance in one, for aspecimen. Anative of Otaheite is said to understand the language of an island eleven hundred degrees distant from it in latitude; besides I know not how many hundreds in longitude ! So that I cannot but rank this narrativewith that of Robinson Crusoe ; and accountTupia to be, in several respects, akin to his man Friday. Saturday, 25, and on the following days, we had many happy opportunities of celebrating the solemn Feast-days, according to the design of their institution. We concluded the year with a Fast-day, closed with a solemn watch-night. Tues. JANUARY 4, 1774.-Three or four years ago, a stum- bling horse threw me forward on the pommel of the saddle. I felt a good deal ofpain ; but it soon went off, and I thought of it no more. Some months after I observed, testiculum alterum altero duplo majorem esse. I consulted a Physician : He told me it was acommon case, and did not imply any disease at all. In May twelvemonth it was grown near as large as a hen's egg. Being then at Edinburgh, Dr. Hamilton insisted on my having the advice of Drs. Gregory and Munro. They immediately saw it was a Hydrocele, and advised me, as soon as I came to London, to aim at a radical cure, which they judged might be effected in about sixteen days: When I came to London, I consulted Mr. Wathen. He advised me, 1. Not to think of a radical cure, which could not be hoped for, without my lying in