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be got up again. The few hands who 

 were employed in this bufinefs now 

 plainly faw the land on the larboard 

 beam, bearing N. W. upon which the 

 fliip was driving bodily. Orders were 

 then given immediately by the captain 

 to fway the fore-yard up, and fet the 

 fore-fail ; which done, we wore fhip with 

 her head to the fouthward, and endea- 

 voured to crowd her off from the land : 

 but the weather, from being exceeding 

 tempeftuous, blowing now a perfedl 

 hurricane, and right in upon the fhore, 

 rendered our endeavours (for we were 

 now only twelve hands fit for duty) in- 

 tirely fruitlefs. The night came on, 

 dreadful beyond defcription, in which, 

 attempting to throw out our topfails to 

 claw off the fhore, they were immediate- 

 ly blown from the yards. 



In the morning, about four o'clock, 

 the fhip ftruck. The fhock we received 

 upon this occa(ion a though very great, 



being 



