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especially as the 1st of August had arrived with- 

 out their having made much progress to the west- 

 ward. On the 29th they fell in with the Charles, 

 under the orders of Fox. Shortly after a tremen- 

 dous gale of wind, accompanied with snow and 

 hail, put them into the utmost peril ; the waves 

 broke over the ship " with that tearing violence/' 

 says James, " that not I, nor any that were then 

 with me, ever saw the sea in such a breach." She 

 took in the water at both sides and at both ends ; 

 it ran into the hold and into the bread-room ; 

 '' for the sea so continually overreached us, that we 

 were like Jonas in the whale's belly." On the 

 12th of September they contrived to run the ship 

 airround aa'ain amono; the rocks on the coast of 

 America, in about the latitude of 52^°, and con- 

 ceiving that she had now got her " death's 

 wound," they threw into the boat some carpen- 

 ter's tools, a barrel of bread, a barrel of powder, 

 some muskets, matches, fishing-hooks and other 

 materials, which they sent ashore, " to prolong a 

 miserable life for a few days." She drove off, 

 however, and was found to be less injured than 

 they had expected. At length, after all manner of 

 perils, they came to an island on the 2d of October, 

 which was called, by James, the Earl of Danby's 

 Island ; but now known generally by the name of 

 Charlton Island, lyiug in lat. about 52°. 



After some time spent in determining what to 

 do, and in exploring the island, the sick men 



