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But little time was confumed in galloping 

 acrofs the ifland, and on reaching the fea- 

 port he difcovered fome (hips of the fleet, not 

 far diftant from the (hore In his mind flight 

 probabilities amounted to a confirmation of 

 fuccefs, and hence the bare appearance of (hips, 

 was, inftantly,conftrued into a certainty of get- 

 ting on board the Lord Sheffield, 



Leaving the horfe he knew not how, nor 

 with whom, he went into a boat, and again 

 put to fea, defiring the men to take him " to 

 the Lord Sheffield, which was about to pafs 

 that way." Again, inftead of adopting the 

 more prudent and certain method of getting 

 on board the firft fhip of the fleet they could 

 reach, and going, from her, to the Lord Shef- 

 field on the paflfage, he employed the boatmen, 

 for hours, in the fruitlefs purfuit of looking for 

 our (hip ; forgetting, what was actually the 

 cafe, that we might have palled the flow fail- 

 ing velfels of the convoy, and have advanced 

 beyond that part of the ifland. 



The day declined ; the fun was finking 

 into the ocean ; and night coming on ; when 

 our tormented Mac — • again found himfelf the 



