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the eye could not sustain them : at one time, the 

 ship seemed to be completely in a blaze ; and the 

 man in question (who was then standing at the 

 wheel, near the captain) suddenly cried out, " I 

 don't know what has happened to me, but I can 

 neither see nor stand and he fell down upon the 

 deck. He was taken up and carried below ; and 

 it appeared that the lightning had affected his eyes 

 and legs, in a degree to make him both blind and 

 lame, though the captain, who was standing by 

 his side, had received no injury: in three or four 

 days, the man was quite well again. In this storm, 

 no less than thirteen vessels were dismasted, or 

 otherwise shattered by the lightning. 



Sea Terms. — Windward, from whence the 

 wind blows ; leeward, to which it blows ; starboard, 

 the right of the stern ; larboard, the left ; star- 

 board helm, when you go to the left ; but when to 

 the right, instead of larboard helm, helm a-port ; 

 hi ff you may, go nearer to the wind; theis (thus) 

 you are near enough ; luff no near } you are too near 

 the wind ; the tiller, the handle of the rudder ; the 

 capstan, the weigher of the anchor ; the buntlines, 

 the ropes which move the body of the sail, the 

 bunt being the body ; the bowlines, those which 

 spread out the sails, and make them swell. 



November 13. 

 At six this morning, came on a tremendous 

 gale of wind \ the captain says, that he never 



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