rowly efcaped perifiiing before they 

 reached the fliore. I now went to cap- 

 tain Cheap (who had the misfortune to 

 diflocate his ihoulder by a fall the day 

 before, as he was going forward to get 

 the fore-yard fwayed up), and alked him 

 if he would not go on fliore ; but he 

 told me, as he had done before, that he 

 would be the laft to leave the fhip ; and 

 he ordered me to aflift in getting the 

 men out as foon as poffible. I had been 

 with him very often from the time the 

 fhip firft ftruck, as he defired I would, 

 to acquaint him with every thing that 

 paired; and I particularly remarked, that 

 he gave his orders at that time with as 

 much coolnefs as ever he had done du- 

 ring the former part of the voyage. 



The fcene was now greatly changed ; 

 for many who but a few minutes 

 before had fhewn the ftrongeft figns 

 of defpair, and were on their knees 

 praying for mercy, imagining they 



were 



