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in our wet cloaths. The froft coming 

 on with the morning, it was impoffible 

 for any of us to get a moment's fleep , 

 and having flung overboard our provi- 

 fion the day before, there being no pro- 

 fpedl of finding any thing to eat on this 

 coaft, in the morning we pulled out of 

 the cove ; but found fo great a fea with- 

 out, that we could make but little of it. 

 Afcer tugging all day, towards night 

 we put in among fome fmall iflands, 

 landed upon one of them, and found it 

 g. mere fwamp. As the weather was 

 the fame, we paJGTed this night much as 

 we had done the preceding ; fea-tangle 

 was all we could get to eat at firft, but 

 the next day we had better luck ; the 

 furgeon (hot a goofe, and we found ma- 

 terials for a good fire. We were con- 

 fined here three or four days, the weather 

 all that time proving fo bad that we 



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could not put cut. As foon as it grew 

 moderate, we left this place, and fhaped 



our 



