hours at fea before the wind fhifted 

 more to the weft ward, and began to blow 

 very hard, and the fea ran extremely high ; 

 fo that we could no longer keep our 

 heads towards the cape or headland we 

 had defigned for. This cape we had 

 had a view of in one of the intervals of 

 fair weather, during our abode on the 

 iflandjfrom Mount Mifery; and it feem- 

 ed to be diftant between twenty and 

 thirty leagues from us. We were now 

 obliged to bear away right before the 



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wind. Thongh the yawl was not far 

 from us, we could fee nothing of her, 

 except now and then, upon the top of a 

 mountainous fea. In both the boats, 

 the men were obliged to fit as clofe as 

 poflible, to receive the feas on their backs, 

 to prevent their filling us, which was 

 what we every moment expected. We 

 were obliged to throw every thing over- 

 board to lighten the boats, all our beef, 

 and even the grapnel, to prevent finking. 



Night 



