of mafts, cordage, and planks floated by the 

 fides of the Uiyfres : All was hurry and alarm 

 around us. Many veffels near torn were injured 

 — fome, driven from their anchors, drifted on 

 board other fhips, or were caft on fhore, and, 

 being there wrecked, remained, before our 

 eyes, fad examples of the greater difafters to 

 be apprehended from the ftorm. 



Such, even, vv^as the perilous infecurlty of 

 the UlyfleSj that although, to ufe the fea-terrn^ 

 we had lowered our top ma/Is ^ and made aU 

 fnug^ it was deemed expedient to prepare the 

 guns, for the purpofe of firing fignals of dif- 

 trefs ; and, had the gale continued much lon- 

 ger, we might have required affiftance, which, 

 at fuch a momeotj it had been impofTible to 

 obtain, 



I was, excefiively, fick and ill ; and from, 

 the deep rollings heavy toffiogs, and the many 

 troubled motions of the Jhip, was quite unable 

 to fapport myfelf upon my legs. Staggering 

 and ftumbling I crav^led out of the ward^room 

 to the middle of the half-deck, to feek a more 

 central part of the llup, and^ there, -clinging 



