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Pierce in part for above L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, Cynamon, andCloves, and he tells us we may hope to get L1500 by it, which God send!Great spoil, I hear, there hath been of the two East India ships, and thatyet they will come in to the King very rich: so that I hope this journeywill be worth L100 to me. [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. In the Bodleian Library. ] After having paid thi...s money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our Yachtagain, having seen many of my friends there. Among others I hear that W. Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very proud andinsolent by it; but it is what I ever expected. I hear by every body howmuch my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during my silence awhile, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly time. No soonercome into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good work we have doneto-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that I begun to spuesoundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I went into thecabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I fell asleep, whichcontinued till we come into Chatham river where the water was smooth, andthen I rose and was very well, and the tide coming to be against us we didland before we come to Chatham and walked a mile, having very gooddiscourse by the way, it being dark and it beginning to rain just as wegot thither.
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