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down, nor a chair, nor {tool to reft upon— 

 hence it only remained to me to crawl upon 

 my hands and knees over the loofe chefts and 

 barrels to the farther!: extent of the cabin, and 

 there throw myfelf into a wooden birth fixed 

 at the fide ; which I found too fhort to admit 

 of the full extenfion of my perfon, and too 

 near the planks of the deck above, to allow 

 of my remaining in any but an extended 

 pofture. 



Still the annihilating naufea I fuffered 

 rendering me infenfible to all other ills, I 

 folded myfelf up, as well as the fhortnefs and 

 narrownefs of my contracted birth would al- 

 low, and afluming, as nearly as I could, the 

 horizontal pofition, fought only to efcape from 

 the diftreffing ficknefs that overpowered me : 

 nor was it until this had fomewhat abated that 

 I difcovered the horrors of the contra&ed 

 dungeon into which I had crawled. Darknefs 

 and naufea had concealed from me, not only 

 the limited extent, but the many other ills of 

 this wretched hole. At a moment when the 

 all-concealing ficknefs had a little fubfided, a 

 failor with a light in bis hand, dropped through 

 the opening by which I had defcended. It 



