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fconded, and the number of our crew is te^ 

 duced to fourteen. This intelligence makes 

 us apprehenfive left, by the time we fail for 

 St. Domingo, we may not have enough hands 

 to work the fliip. But we are confoled 

 in the recolledion that the friendly trades 

 win be dire£tly in our favor; and that we 

 cannot require fo ftrong a fhip's company 

 as amidft the terrific, and adverfe gales which 

 fo long befet us on our pafTage hither, 

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A fad alarm has fpread th roughout the 

 harbour, and we have been all in vivid 

 and anxious concern, refpedling the fate 

 of twelve men who went out in a flat-bot- 

 tomed boat to confign to the deep bofom 

 of the ocean, the body of a deceafed £hip- 

 mate. Defirous not to throw over the 

 corpfe within the harbour, where it would 

 be inftantly devoured by the numerous 

 fliarks which infeft the bay, and which we 

 fee almoft daily ftealing round the veffels in 

 fearch of prey, they rowed fo far out to fea 

 as to be unable to pull back again ; and the 

 tide being againft them, their heavy boat, not- 

 wlthftanding all their efforts to row her 

 into the harbour, v^^as fet adrift, and carried 



