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which its fwift paflage gives to the water ; for 

 in the night fomethrag (hone about our fliip : 

 yet this might alfo be occafioned by many 

 forts of little worms, dead fifties, and other 

 putrified bodies. 



June the 1 2th, 3 6° 54' S. L. 



The fea raged exceffively, and was driven 

 by the wind, as the fnow is on the land. The 

 colour of the waves, and their height indeed, 

 refembled hills of fnow. At three o'clock in 

 the afternoon a great body of water burh 1 into 

 the cabbins through the windows, and fpoiled 

 all the fugar, cloths, books, &c. which it met 

 with. This accident put us into great confufion. 

 Such was the reception we met with at the 

 rocks of St. Paid and Amjlerdam, from whence, 

 the next night, a florm attended with hail fo 

 effectually helped us away, that the reefed 

 mizzen and fore- fails only, were fufficient, 

 whereas at other times we were obliged to add 

 twenty more fails. 



June the 14th, 35 16' S. L. 



We faw fome fea-grafs fwimming by the 



{hip ; it was perhaps zfucus, for our navigators 



I 4 call 



