to fome firm hold, remained, fick and com- 

 fortlefs, to wear out a moft diftrefsful day. 

 Afflided with head-ach, a naufeated ftomach, 

 and trembling limbs, my contemplations were 

 not of the moft confolatory nature. I faw all 

 the evils that were to befal our fleet under 

 their moft gloomy colors. I beheld the con- 

 voy difperfed ; fliips ftruggling in the gale ; 

 my fellow creatures finking ; and the whole 

 expedition difcomfited : the mind fympa- 

 thizing with the fickened frame, all was 

 pictured as one grand fcene of difafter and 

 deftrudion. 



My friend Mafter, and fome others on 

 board, fuffered ftill more feverely than I did ; 

 for, by fixing myfelf to the fpot where I 

 found a free circulation of air, and, com- 

 paratively, but little motion, the naufea, which 

 diftrefled me, did not proceed to the violent, 

 and almoft inceffant reaching, with which 

 they were afflided. 



In the mldft of our apprehenfions, and 

 our danger, I could not but notice the ftrange 

 remarks, and quaint jokes which pafTcd among 



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