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not doubting but we {Mild find it at that 

 diftance. But we were then really five 

 hundred Leagues off 5 and having ran fome ; 

 hundreds of Leagues to the Weft in the 

 fame Latitude, and yet finding no Land, 

 our Men were out of Heart, fearing we 

 were ftill in a wrong Courfe, and being 

 all in danger of periling at Sea, through 

 want of Provisions • having little Food, 

 Afeafon- and lefs Water., It pleas'd God, during this 

 able Rain. Exigence, to fend us a Days Rain, which 

 fell very plentiful ^ and we fav'd of it fe- 

 veral Casks of Water, which was a great 

 Refremment to us, and made our Men 

 pluck up their Hearts for fometime. But 

 having run 450 Leagues in this Latitude, 

 and ftill finding no Land, which they had 

 expeded to have feen in ico, this bred a 

 frefh Commotion, and we had like to have 

 been altogether by the Ears upon it. The 

 greateft part were for changing the Courfe, 

 which they thought muft needs be wrong :- 

 Deliver- But Captain Davit, and Mr. Knott the 

 fte? Mafter, beggd of them for God's fake to 

 ofperijh- keen the fame Courfe two Days longer, 

 ac which they did, though we had but a fmall 

 &a ' Wind : And in that time a Flight of Locufts 

 and other Infe&s coming off with a Flurry 

 of Wind from the Weft, aflur'd us there- 

 was Land there, not far off. Had not this 

 • providentially hapned, we fliould hive 

 chang'd our Courfe, for the Men would 



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