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644 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
"The vessel sailed at last, and he left the place where he had
remained over two months, and finally arrived at his destination .
There also the feebleness of his body, the unhealthiness of the sea
son for travelling, and the counsels of his friends were sufficient to
prevent him from pursuing his journey into the interior of the coun
try ; but he was inflexible.
“He set out with a caravan of merchandize belonging to himself,
and an escort of thirty persons whom he considered trustworthy. He
had no suspicion that his travelling companions were robbers; but,
while on his journey, he was stripped of everything; and all his
great projects of making discoveries in natural history and chemistry
and of finding gold-mines were for ever dissipated. Abandoned by
his escort, he was left alone, and died either from fright or from
fatigue. By his death his wife and children, whom he had left at
home, were reduced to a deplorable condition, and I who had under
taken to pay some of his debts, am still a sufferer in consequence.
“God certainly intended to influence him by the reverses that
preceded his journey, and induce him to give up his plan, so as
to secure to him a longer life, and so enable him to repent of his
evils before entering into eternity, and also to save his family from
misery.
“One year before his death I was in London for several months
daily in his society, and I foresaw that he was on the eve of a great
misfortune. For contrary to his ordinary disposition he became angry
without any cause, even against his friends and benefactors.
a bad construction on their remarks, which were spoken with the
best intention; he associated with persons without morals, and did
not practise conscientiously that religion which he professed. In
this manner he lost the interior discernment of what is good and
true, or those presentiments by which we are saved from dangers.”
He put
NOTE 36.
CHARLES BERNS WADSTRÖM .
The following account of Charles Berns Wadström, from the pen
of Mr. J. A. Tulk , is written on the flyleaf of the copy of the “New
Jerusalem Magazine," which he presented to the Library of the
Swedenborg Society: "This gentleman came from Stockholm to Lon
don prior to the year 1790 , and brought with him many of the
manuscripts of Emanuel Swedenborg, such as the Diary” and
others. a man zealous in the propagation of the New
He was
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