 The "Lydia" took four months to reach China, trading at Macau and Canton, where he met an old acquaintance from Hull who had also taken to the sea.The "Lydia" left China in February 1807 and 114 days later was in Boston, USA, to Jewitt's huge relief, where he found a letter from his stepmother congratulating him on his escape.In 1807, Jewitt published his "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound".