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ing, complaining of cold, we were expofed to 

 the flill greater annoyance — to the extreme 

 peril of lying with the hatch-way clofed. But 

 this I felt it totally impoflible to endure ; and 

 therefore, loudly, and earneftly, entreated, that 

 crowded and flowed as we were, we might 

 not, on any account, be Quit from the breeze, 

 Poffibly it might have proved an effedual ex- 

 pedient for relieving us from the vermin, and 

 infeds ; but, from being apprehenfive of my 

 own lungs, I was unwilling to hazard the ex- 

 periment. 



In a ftate truly deplorable did we pafs 

 a long and wearifome night. I had taken no 

 food ; naufea ftill opprefled me ; my very bones 

 ached ; my cold was fevere ; my eyes were 

 fwoln from reaching, and from want of reft ; 

 my head throbbed with pain ; the heat of the 

 cabin was fufFocating ; and I was almoft expir- 

 ing from want of air. With what anxiety 

 did I wait the return of day ; and when grey 

 morning ftole in at the hatch-way, how joy- 

 fully did I hail its happy dawn ! 



My mind's eye now faw the fort of Ber~ 

 bifche clofe a-head of the Hoop, and I contem- 



