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But they might have been ftif! much more fur- 

 prized how we came to Hand it out, when two 

 days after, our vefTel being hauled afhore, fell 

 to pieces through rottennefs. This was the firft 

 news I heard after my arrival here. Judge you, 

 Madam, on what tenure we held our lives on board 

 fuch a vefTel, during a voyage of eighteen hun- 

 dred leagues, in a leafon when the fea is always 

 in a fury and what thanks we ought to render 

 to Almighty God, not only for delivering us 

 from fo imminent a danger, but likewiie for keep* 

 ing it from our knowledge, which alone would 

 have been fufficient to make us die a thoufand 

 times, through mere fear. 



I am, &e. 



FINIS. 



