My employers were so well pleased with the trade, I had opened in Hamburg; that they planned another voyage immediately, and tho^{t.} they you’d hardly afford me time to visit my family at the cape. However, by promis’s of a short stay, I came to Brewster; saw my family, and returned to Boston to fit out the ship, for another Voyage in which, it was concluded, that it wou’d be for the Interest of the Voyage, that on my arrival in H--^{g} I should land my Cargo, load the ship with a return cargo, & send her home by my Mate, & remain in Hamburg myself thro” the Winter, to sell the cargo then landed, and prepare another for the ship, on her return to me in the spring.--under the foregoing arrangement, I saild for Hamburg a 2^{d} time; arrived their after a common passage, landed my Cargo, loaded the ship, with Russia & Germain goods, and sent her for Boston, under the comman^{d} of my mate, David Nickerson. She sailed, the last of September, and by the middle of Nov^{r}, we were compleatly bound in fetters of _Frost_, and, in that high Lattitude, we had only about 7. hours day light in 24. but there was no lack of _amusements_, to please the eye, tast, or mind, & I injoyed myself very well, untill the last of Dec^{r.} when I received a letter, which came overland, by way of Holland, from one of my employers, in which it was stated in a, Postcrip, _Your wife has been very Sick, but, I beleive, she_ _is better_. This unwellcome intiligence; the uncouth manner, in which it was conveyed to me; and the great uncertainty of hearing any thing more, untill the ship returned to me; put my mind into a perplexing state of anxiety, which bid defiance to all injoyment of life. [Sidenote: Anxiety and Illness] Within a few days, as I entered the coffee room, of the Hotel, one morning, the servant said to me; there is an american Newspaper, which arrived last evening, by way of London,--I took up the paper, and first thing that attracted my notice, was my _Brothers death_--Thus the mind, already bowed down with anxiety; was obliged to receive this _heartrending_ addition to its already overcharged burden, but, our heavenly Father, lays no more upon his children, than, He knows, they can bear.--for in addition to my afflixtions then, I was attacted with the _brain_ fever, and with such severity, that for 8 days, I was unconcious of either pleasure, or pain.--but I was, finally, permitted to recover, with the loss, only, of my full head of black hair; but I got over that deficuty _pritty_ well, by substituting a Wig, and have been obliged to wear one ever since, to keep my head warm.--but notwithstanding all, I was supported thro” the winter, my business, by the help of merchants, Brokers &c, went on well; and when the ship arrived; about the 20^{th} of May, I was ready prepared for her; and the news she bro^{t.} me, from my family, was a cordial to my lasserated feelings.