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claiming—" Dammee if we Jhall get in to-night^ 

 for /he'll neither wag one way nor f other" For 

 this I was not unprepared, my expeditions for 

 fome hours previous, having been of accord 

 with the information i and although the epi- 

 thets of old, rotten and leaky, tifed by the 

 enfuriated captain, were, from all appearance, 

 very correctly true, I was grown too refigned* 

 or too callous to all the ills of my fituation, to 

 experience any feelings of alarm refpe&ing 

 our iafety. 



After fome delay the veffel did come aboul\ 

 and we again flood on, boldly, for the land^ 

 making all polFible fail, the mafter and his 

 crew not defpairing of being able to reach 

 Berbifche by night. But, as if the very 

 fates had combined with the elements, to 

 throw every obftacle in the way of our paftage, 

 the breeze fuddenly dropped, and we were 

 befet in a calm ! Againft this impediment 

 neither the oaths of the commander, nor the 

 exertions of the failors could ought avail. 

 The captain who had already opened his 

 whole ftore of imprecations was about to re- 

 peat them with manful energy, but, recollect- 

 ing himfelf, he bellowed one round curfe 



