Feb. 18.--To Sdune, four miles.

Feb. 19.--To Goblin two miles.

Here we arrived wholly destitute of money. I sold my coat to a Jew,
who gave me four florins and a coarse waggoner's frock, in exchange,
which I did not think I should long need, as we now drew nearer to
where my sister lived, and where I hoped I should be better
equipped. Schell, however, grew weaker and weaker; his wounds
healed slowly, and were expensive; the cold was also injurious to
him, and, as he was not by nature cleanly in his person, his body
soon became the harbour of every species of vermin to be picked up
in Poland. We often arrived wet and weary, to our smoky, reeking
stove-room. Often were we obliged to lie on straw, or bare boards;
and the various hardships we suffered are almost incredible.
Wandering as we did, in the midst of winter, through Poland, where
humanity, hospitality, and gentle pity, are scarcely so much as
known by name; where merciless Jews deny the poor traveller a bed,
and where we disconsolately strayed, without bread, and almost
naked: these were sufferings, the full extent of which he only can
conceive by whom they have been felt. My musket now and then
procured us an occasional meal of tame geese, and cocks and hens,
when these were to be had; otherwise, we never took or touched
anything that was not our own. We met with Saxon and Prussian
recruiters at various places; all of whom, on account of my youth
and stature, were eager to inveigle me. I was highly diverted to
hear them enumerate all the possibilities of future greatness, and
how liable I was hereafter to become a corporal: nor was I less
merry with their mead, ale, and brandy, given with an intent to make
me drunk. Thus we had many artifices to guard against; but thus had