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many fhlps are loft ; numbers of fouls have 

 periflied ; and the whole expedition is difabled 

 and delayed. 



To repeat to you all the afflifling reports 

 we hear on the fubjeft, would fwell my 

 letter into a volume : for. In addition to real 

 and ferlous ills, the reprefentations of paf- 

 fengers, not accuftomed to the fea, magnify 

 thofe of lefs importance into a terrific ca- 

 talogue of injuries and difafters. Some loft 

 their baggage — fome their ftock and provl- 

 fions : One laments his pig — another his goat 

 — another his poultry : Some were floating 

 in their births, from water dafhing in at the 

 fcuttles ; and others, finding the fea break in at 

 the ftern and quarter-gallery windows, fan- 

 cied themfelves to be drowning in their beds. 

 Pigs and fheep, chickens and ducks were 

 waflied away by dozens. Hen* coops, filled 

 with poultry, boats, binnacles, and quarter 

 boards were all fwept off by the violence of 

 the wind, or by the heavy feas that broke over 

 the deck. Hogs and fheep put to fea in open 

 boats ; ducks and geefe fwam off in their 

 coops 5 naked goats fought the waves ; even 



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