628 CRUSOE REACHES LONDON,

having beon a year and five months and three days on the journey,
including our stay of eight months and odd days at Tobolski.

Woe were obliged to stay at this place six weeks, for the arrival
of the ships, and must have tarried longer, had not a Hamburger
come in above a month sooner than any of the English ships ;
when, after somo consideration that the city of Hamburg might
happen to be as good a market, for our goods as London, we all
took freight with him; and, having put my goods on board, it
Was most natural for me to put my steward on board to take care
of them, by which means my young lord had a sufficient opportu-
nity to conceal himself, never coming on shore in all the time we
stayed there; and this he did that he might not be seen in the
city, Where some of the Moscow merchants would certainly have
seen and discovered him,

We sailed from Archangel the 20th of August, the same year,
and after no extraordinary bad voyage, arrived in the Elbe the
Sth of September. Here my partner and T found a very good
sale for our goods, as well those of China, as the sables, &e., of
Siberia; and dividing the produce of our effects, my share
amounted to £3475, Lis. 8d., notwithstanding so many losses
we had sustained, and charges we had been at, only remembering
that T had included in this about six hundred pounds worth of
diamonds which [had purchased at Bengal,

Here the young lord took his leave of us, and went up the Hlbe,
in order to go to the Court of Vienna, where he resolved to seek
protection, and where he could correspond with those of his
fathor’s friends who were left alive. We did not part without all
the testimonies he could give me of gratitude for the service T had
done him, and his sense of my kindness to the prince, his father.

To conclude, Having stayed near four months in Hamburg,
T came from thence overland 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, resolving to harass myself no more, I am preparing
for a longer journey than all these, having lived seventy-two
years a life of infinite variety, and learned sufticiently to know the
value of retirement, and the blessing of ending our days in peace.