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the ship, fallen down with me, and caught ine as 

 it were in a net. I was stunned, and did not re- 

 cover my senses till the cable threatened to break, 

 and just gave me time to swing myself on the deck. 

 The coop, with forty fowls, on which I had been 

 lying, together with my pillow, swam in the sea 

 past the ship : I thanked God for my safe deliver- 

 ance, and patiently bore the loss of the roast fowls, 

 upon which we had all reckoned, for those that were 

 in both the other coops also perished by the vio- 

 lence of the waves. It was not till after I had re- 

 covered from my fright, that I discovered the 

 ravages which this unhappy wave had occasioned ; 

 the whole railing against which I had been lying 

 was dashed to pieces, and even the strong timbers 

 of the gallery were broken, and the cannon thrown 

 to the other side ; happily none of the people were 

 in the way, or they would certainly have been 

 killed. With a sorrowful heart I looked around 

 me, the top of my cabin was torn off, and part of 

 the wave had rushed in. I trembled for my instru- 

 ments and books, the loss of which would have 

 been irreparable. Before I ventured down, I 

 ordered the opening to be nailed up with boards, 

 to preserve the cabin from a second wave. We 

 found the rudder unserviceable for the present, 

 but happily it would bear repairing. Several of the 

 sailors had suffered slight contusions, particularly 

 the man who sat at the helm. I now descended 

 into my cabin to examine into my loss, but, to my 



