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the people as long as poffible ; for 

 often faid afterwards, he thought there 

 was not the lead chance of a {Ingle 

 man's being faved. We now run in 

 between an opening of the breakers, 

 fleering by the flieets and braces, when 

 providentially we ftuck fail between two 

 great rocks ; that to windward flickering 

 us in fome meafure from the violence 

 of the fea. We immediately cut away 

 the main and foremaft; but the ftiip kept 

 beating in fuch a manner, that we ima- 

 gined fhe could hold together but a 

 very little while. The day now broke, 

 and the weather, that had been extremely 

 thick, cleared away for a few moments^ 

 and gave us a glimpfe of the land not 

 far from us. We now thought of no- 

 thing but faving our lives. To get the 

 boats out, as our mafts were gone, was a 

 work of fome time 5 which when ac- 

 complilhed, many were ready to jump 

 into the firft, by which means they nar- 

 rowly 



