DISTRESSES OF 300 N'TS. < 



but for others, who w .is 



* cornp.t of 



Mar;* c.. .1 forbc 



, 1 . in general terms, 



th.ir lent** 



tions f( fd in ti of this work. 

 One of the {; .c, who hath an cltate 



and tVvcr.ii . kind of tnu uph, 



Upo: 'J 



The pc itedctci 



nation not to remain in So poling the 



owners of the (hip fhouKi iffuie to take them on 

 board upon their ai .k. 



Tht fie poor wanderers was remarkably 



fmgular and diftreffing. After a wretched exiltcnce 

 dc\ vear, to fruidcfs toil and dn. 



they let ou: i pennylefs, with their wives and 



f O children, 01 cy of near 200 miles to 



chforti ige; fail on 



voyage of 3000 miles ; 



ft with itorms till the 6th, wlien, at the diftancc 

 of fomc hundi :s, they lofc their mainmaft, 



ajid dare not venture acrofs the Atlantic. Ti 



i for t. : from win nee they fct out j arc 



driven againlt rocks, and left upon a ftrange 

 hout friends, money or change of appa- 

 rel, in the view of t! ? s and children, whofe 

 fituati. prived of their only dependence, 

 is (1 



The confid of what the women muft fuffer, 



gives additional poignancy to the feelings of the 

 men. They o miles from Greene 



feas muft be crofiKi ; a boat muft be hired 

 have no money to pay for it : Mr. More, a humane 



f ids them his boar, 



and gives them a certificate, ftating the particulars of 

 their calcV They land near the mi intire; beg 



* The boatmen of Rathlin extorted is. or upwards from each 

 f the perfoos carried on (bore, when the flup lUuck, though the 



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