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creafe fo that We were obliged to reef ouf 

 fail, which it was dangerous to carry full ; 

 yet ft ill we made more way than before ; 

 ^nd the wind blowing with greater violence, 

 and driving us rapidly towards Alicuda^ 

 from which we were now not flir diftant, 

 endangered our being fhipw^ecked on the 

 fhore. Bays or harbours are things unknown 

 in this ifland, and our bark driving before 

 the wind, it was to be feared, might foon 

 dafli againft a rock, or run upon a fand- 

 bank ; and we had the lefs hope of being 

 able to avoid this danger, as our failors, 

 from unpardonable negligence, had not 

 brought with them any anchor. 



The fea, in the mean time, ran very high; 

 and the waves, which would not, perhaps, 

 have given much alarm to a large fhip, were 

 Tery formidable to our little vefTel, which 

 they broke over from fide to fide, and from 

 jftern to prow, w^hirling it round with their 

 violence; while the danger of being wrecked 

 continually increafed by our approaching 

 the ifland, notwithftanding all the exertions 



we 



