stances, who, being desirous of settling in America,
and not having money to pay their passage, agree
with the American captains of vessels to be taken
over on condition of hiring for a term of years, on
their arrival in America, to masters who are willing
to advance 10 or 12 guineas to be deducted out of
their wages; and it not unfrequently happens that
they agree to serve two, three, or four years for
meat and clothes only, on condition of their pas-
sage being paid. Yet, as wages, in the general,
are rather high in America, it will easily be sup-
posed that an active and clever person, conversant in
some business, will make much better terms on
landing, than the old and infirm; or than those who
come over ignorant of any business.

The two female servants I have just mentioned
were both widows; and one of them had two chil-
dren with her in the family, who were quite young.
This woman had lost her husband about the time
of their arrival on the American coast; and the
husband of the other, being a sea-faring man be-
longing to Holland, had, as I understood, lost
his life and property by an English ship of war.
Although these two females had obtained a settle-
ment in a country enjoying many privileges beyond
that which they had left; yet, I think, no feeling
mind could behold them thus circumstanced,
placed amongst strangers of whose language they
were almost wholly ignorant; and habituated to