(seq. 174)

Mr. Steers was not firm enough to play and
dance long so he sat on the throne, playing to
the other Gentlemen, who may with propriety
be said to have danced reels - These good people
however had the charity to offer us some rum which
we were not so unwise as to refuse, so laying down
in our wet cloathes on the boards we passed the
night as well as we could