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excited by the arrival of a man who from the point 

 had seen the accident. He declared that he had 

 seen us blown out to sea, and his report was corro- 

 borated by our non-appearance. On this a regular 

 alarm had been sounded in the island. The good 

 old governor had. despatched his tender to look out 

 for us, and I know not how many volunteers had 

 started on the same errand. Many were the good 

 fellows who had braved the horrors of that stormy 

 night, that they might have the hope of helping us. 

 The brig was a merchant craft, whose skipper and 

 owner had been induced to start on the cruise. She 

 had been throwing out signals for an hour and a 

 half, and was nearly giving up the search as a bad 

 job. Well for us that she did not ! 



It was grey morning when the good skipper set us 

 on shore ; and I might very well end my yarn, with 

 telling how we heartily shook each other by the 

 hand, and how then I betook myself to those quarters 

 which I had so little expected ever to revisit. But 

 circumstances deeply affecting my after-life came as 

 sequels to this adventure, and I think the account of 

 them should come here also. I reached my room 

 without having met a single individual ; and tired, 

 wet, and worn out with mental agitation, I threw 

 myself on my bed and slept soundly. My dreams 

 naturally followed in the train of what had been my 

 waking thoughts. Again I was afloat, and again 

 underwent the terrors of foundering at sea. The phan- 



