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Cloak, where we had as it w^ere buried ourselves in expect- 

 ation of Death, one might reasonably have taken us for so 

 many Persons newly risen from the Dead. Hope soon took 

 place of our dismal Apprehensions, and Strength returning 

 to us at the same time with our Joy, we began to make 

 Reflections at our ease. But we did not above all omit to 

 admire the Divine Providence which had turn'd to good, all 

 the Misfortune of that terrible Storm ; for doubtless if we 

 had not been forc'd out of the Route we propos'd to our 

 selves, we had never lit on the Island where we design'd to 

 Land.^ 



About five at Night, on the 29th of May, and the ninth 

 Day after our setting Sail, we arriv'd in a small P>ay2 of Isle 

 Maurice. We went up a tolerably large Eiver with the Tide, 



bears his name (it now belongs to the London Library), with date, 

 October 18, 1813 : 



" The moon is sunk, a dusky grey 



Spreads o'er the eastern sky, 



The stars grow pale and paler ; — 



Oh beautiful ! the godlike sun 



Is rising o'er the sea ! 



Withovit an oar, without a sail, 



The little boat rides rapidly ; — 



Is that a cloud that skirts the sea ? 



There is no cloud in heaven ! 



And nearer now, and darker now — 



It is — it is — the land !" 



1 In the French edition Leguat adds to this paragraph, after the 

 words, " jamais nous n'aurions rencontre ITsle oil nous avions dessein 

 d'aborder," the following reflection : "nous etions perdus, si nous n'eus- 

 sions ete perdus''; quoting, as M. Muller points out, from the speech of 

 Themistocles at Sardis, as given in Abbot Amiot's version of Plutarch's 

 Lives : — " For he, being stept up to great countenance and authority, 

 and followed with great traines of suitors after him by reason of his 

 greatness ; seeing himself one day very honourably served at his table, 

 and with all sorts of dainty meats, he turned him to his children and 

 said unto them : ' My sonnes, we should have been undone, if we had 

 not been vmdone.' " (See Sir Thomas North's Translation, 1607.) 



2 Probably Port Souillac, at the extreme south of the island. 



