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experienced a heavier. However, we rode it out 

 with great success, although, at one time, it was 

 bawled out that we were driving ; and, at another, 

 a brig which lay near us broke from her moorings, 

 and came bearing down close upon us. The dan- 

 ger, indeed, from the difference of size, was all 

 upon the side of the brig ; but, luckily, the ves- 

 sels cleared each other. This evening she has 

 thought it as well to remove further from so dan- 

 gerous a neighbourhood. There is a little cabin 



boy on board, and Mr. J has brought 



with him a black terrier; and these two at first 

 sight swore to each other an eternal friendship, in 

 the true German style. It is the boy's first voyage, 

 and he is excessively sea-sick; so he has been obliged 

 to creep into his hammock, and his friend, the little 

 black terrier, has crept into the hammock with him. 

 A boat came from the shore this evening, and re- 

 ported that several vessels have been dismasted, 

 lost their anchors, and injured in various ways. A 

 brig, which was obliged to make for Ramsgate, 

 missed the pier, and was dashed to pieces com- 

 pletely ; the crew, however, were saved, all except 

 the pilot ; who, although he was brought on shore 

 alive, what between bruises, drowning, and fright, 

 had suffered so much, that he died two hours after- 

 wards. The weather has now again become calm; 

 but it is still full west. 



