Every effort was now made to forward the passengers to their destinations, and to dispose of the crew by drafting them into different ships. After a little exertion, this was happily accomplished on behalf of all, with the exception of two steerage passengers, who preferred to accept of situations in the colony. So soon as I had thus discharged my obligations to the people under my care, I began to think how to dispose of myself. After various friendly offers of employment, none of which exactly suited me, I finally accepted of a passage home in a London schooner belonging to Mr. Fletcher, and bound to Bristol. My kind friends in Cape Town affectionately accompanied me to the ship, and, after taking grateful leave of them, our vessel set sail for England, and in due season, "by the good hand of my God upon me," I returned in peace to the bosom of my wife and family.
Thus terminated a voyage replete with judgment and mercies. In the review of its "affliction and misery--the wormwood and the gall--my soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled within me." And "may my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget that "God who answered us in the day of our distress, and was with us in the way in which we went." I trust also that the same spirit and resolution may abide upon all the survivors of that disastrous voyage which appeared in the day of our calamity. Even the most indifferent in religious things there owned that it was "a good thing to call upon God," and "poured out a prayer when his chastening hand was upon them." May it never be said of any of us that "we flattered him with our mouth, and lied unto him with our tongues," or that "we forgat God and remembered not his wonders." The solemn professions which we then made are still before his throne, and He will never forget, however we may, the extraordinary obligations under which we lie, to dedicate our spared lives to His service. O that we may every day perform the vows which "our lips uttered--our mouths spake when trouble was upon us;" and that our future lives may realize the holy resolution of the man of God: "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling; therefore I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living."