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Upon which I told him, his Kindness shewn us already was more than we could have desired; it would be a sufficient favour now to supply us with a little Money upon a Bill to be paid at Fort S.George, that we might therewith Cloth our selves.
To which he answered, That he would not deny me any Sum I should demand, and Cloth us upon his own account besides.
For which we humbly thanked his Lordship: and so took our leaves of him; and went home with the aforesaid Captain. [Sends them Money.] The Governor presently sent me Money by his Steward for Expences when we walked abroad in the City.
We were nobly entertained without lack of any thing all the time we stayed at Columbo.
My Consort's Ague increased, and grew very bad; [And a Chirurgeon.] but the chief Chirurgeon by order daily came to see him, and gave him such Potions of Physick, that by God's Blessing he soon after recovered. [The Author writes a Letter to the English at Cande.] During my being here, I writ a Letter to my fellow Prisoners I left behind me in Cande.
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