To the Rev. J. Jowett
(ENDORSED: recd. Aug. 13, 1833)
HAMBURG, AUGUST 4TH, 1833.

REVD. AND DEAR SIR, - I arrived at Hamburg yesterday after a
disagreeable passage of three days, in which I suffered much from
sea-sickness, as did all the other passengers, who were a medley of
Germans, Swedes, and Danes, I being the only Englishman on board,
with the exception of the captain and crew. I landed about seven
o'clock in the morning, and the sun, notwithstanding the earliness
of the hour, shone so fiercely that it brought upon me a transient
fit of delirium, which is scarcely to be wondered at, if my
previous state of exhaustion be considered. You will readily
conceive that my situation, under all its circumstances, was not a
very enviable one; some people would perhaps call it a frightful
one. I did not come however to the slightest harm, for the Lord
took care of me through two of His instruments, Messrs. Weil and
Valentin, highly respectable Jews of Copenhagen, who had been my
fellow-passengers, and with whom I had in some degree ingratiated
myself on board, in our intervals of ease, by conversing with them
about the Talmud and the book Sohar. They conveyed me to the Konig
von Engeland, an excellent hotel in the street called the
Neuenwall, and sent for a physician, who caused me to take forty
drops of laudanum and my head to be swathed in wet towels, and
afterwards caused me to be put to bed, where I soon fell asleep,
and awoke in the evening perfectly recovered and in the best
spirits possible. This morning, Sunday, I called on the British
Consul, Mr. H. Canning, to whom I had a letter of recommendation.
He received me with great civility, and honoured me with an