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piece of garboard-strake yet remained attached to the 

 ship ; a line was with some difficulty fixed to it, hut 

 it was found insufficient to drag it off; a hawser 

 likewise failed, though we contrived to clench it 

 round the plank, until, after heaving upon it in va- 

 rious positions, it was at length torn asunder. This 

 plank we found was 9 feet in length, and had at- 

 tached to it a piece of the dead wood, 6 inches in 

 thickness. 



These incumbrances being removed, the thrumh- 

 cd sail for fothering was immediately applied to the 

 place, and a vast quantity of fothering materials 

 thrown into its concavity, when it was fairly imder- 

 neath. Over this sail, we spread a fore-sail, and 

 braced the whole as tight to the ship as the keel- 

 bolts which yet remained in their horizontal posi- 

 tion, would permit. The effect was as happy as we 

 could possibly have anticipated. 



Some time before all these operations were com- 

 pleted, our people, assisted by the John's crew, who, 

 after a short rest, had returned to us, put the three 

 pumps and bailing tubs in motion, and applied their 

 energies with such effect, that in eleven hours the 

 pumps sucked ! In this time, a dcptli of 13 feet wa- 

 ter was pumped out of the hold, besides the leakage. 

 The John's crew remained at the pumps yet four 

 hours longer, until our own men cleared the after-hold 

 of casks, and got every thing in readiness to put in 

 execution the caulking of the ceiling, agreeably to 



