we were there very happily near the end of our travels by land, that river being navigable in feven days paffage to Arch-Angel: from hence we came to Lawrenskoy, where the river joins, the third of July; and provided ourselves with two luggage-boats, and a barge, for our convenience. We embarked the feventh, and arrived all fafe at Arch-Angel the eighteenth, having been a year, five months, and three days on the journey, including our ftay of eight months and odd days at Tobolski.

We were obliged to stay at this place fix weeks for the arrival of the fhips, and must have tarried longer, had not a Hamburgher come in above a month fooner than any of the English fhips; when, after fome confideration, that the city of Hamburgh might happen. to be as good a market for our goods as London, we all took freight with him; and having put our goods on board, it was moft natural for me to put my fteward on board to take care of them; by which means my young lord had a fufficient opportunity to conceal himself, never coming on fhore again in all the time we ftaid there; and this he did, that he might not be feen in the city, where fome of the Mofcow merchants would certainly have feen and difcovered him.

We failed from Arch-Angel the twentieth of Auguft the fame year; and, after no extraordinary bad voyage, arrived in the Elbe the thirteenth of September: here my partner and I found a very good fale for our goods, as well thofe of China, as the fables, &c. of Siberia; and dividing the produce of our effects, my fhare amounted to 34751. 17s. 3d. notwithstanding fo many loffes we had fuftained, and

charges we had been at; only remembering that I had included, in this, about 600l. worth of diamonds, which I had purchased at Bengal.

Here the young lord took his leave of us, and went up the Elbe, in order to go to the court of Vienna, where he refolved to feek protection, and where he could correfpond with those of his father's friends who were left alive. He did not part without all the teftimonies he could give, of gratitude for the service I had done him, and his sense of my kindness to the prince his father.

To conclude having staid near four months in Hamburgh, I came from thence over land to the Hague, where I embarked in the packet, and arrived in London the 10th of January, 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months.

And here, refolving to harrafs myself no more, I am preparing for a longer journey than all thefe, having lived feventy-two years a life of infinite variety, and learned fufficiently to know the value of retirement, and the bleffing of ending our days in peace.

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TH HE enfuing Life was written amufement, during a period of convalefcence in 1785; and published anonymously by Stockdale, before The Hiftory of the Union, in 1786. As the Author fears no reproach for fuch amufement, during fuch a period, he made no ftrong objections to Stockdale's folicitations, that it might be annexed, with the Author's name, to this fplendid edition of ROBINSON CRUSOE. The Reader will now have the benefit of a few corrections, with fome additions, and a LIST of DE FOE'S WRITINGS.