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through the night, fleep was a ftrariger to my 

 eyes. Indeed had the foothing deity of repofe 

 invited me to his foft bowers, I fhould have 

 refufed the offering, in the apprehenfion that if 

 I ceafed to keep watch, I might lofe a finger, 

 either of the hand or the foot ; or be eaten in 

 holes by the herds of hungry vermin, that 

 were feeking to make a prey of my body, 

 Cornfortlefs, wearied, hnd with aching bones, 

 I gladly greeted the return of day, and with- 

 out dwelling upon minor ills, felt it fortunate 

 to have preferved myfelf • • t . . in a whole fkin I 



To prevent the accident of the preceding 

 night, we had let go the anchor ; and, with- 

 out the riik of fleering away from our courfe, 

 remained near the fhore until the revolving fun 

 again broke from the waters of the eaft to 

 guide our path. It was now difcovered that 

 we had been lying near to the eftate of our 

 fellow paflenger, where it Was intended we 

 Ihould have flept ; and it alfo appeared that 

 We were only a few hours run from Berbifche ; 

 and that, urilefs fome hew prevention occurred, 

 we could not fail to complete our voyage in 

 the courfe of the day. 



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