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open air, and flept as well as we could ; 

 but that was nothing to us, who had been 

 ufed to fare fo much worfe. We lived 

 well, eating with the mailer and boat- 

 fwain, who always had their meals upon 

 the quarter-deck, and drank brandy at 

 them as we do fmall beer ; and all the 

 reft of the day were fmoaking fegars. 



The fifth day we made the land four 

 or five leagues to the fouthward of Val- 

 paraifo ; and foon after falling calm, a 

 great weftern fwell hurried us in very faft 

 towards the fliore. We dropped the lead 

 feveral times, but had fuch deep water 

 we could not anchor. They were all 

 much alarmed when the jefuit came out 

 of the cabin for the firft time, having 

 been fea-fick the whole pafTage. As foon 

 as he was informed of the danger, he 

 went back into the cabin, and brought 

 out the image of fome faint, wl ich he 

 defired might be hung up in the mizen- 

 flhrouds ; which being done, he kept threat- 

 8 ening 



