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of day, all hands being meantime busily employed 

 in repairing the damage that had been done, espe- 

 cially among the cordage, which had suffered by 

 the breaking of the bowsprit. The fine library of 

 Baron Von Neveu was overflowed by the waves> 

 which had beat in the windows of the great cabin, 

 and almost all the travellers had sustained some 

 damage by this furious storm ; yet, being now in 

 safety, we were less concerned about our own mis- 

 fortunes than about the fate of our consort. The 

 passengers, to whom this first trial had been very 

 severe, gradually assembled on the deck, where the 

 view of the great damage so suddenly occasioned, 

 and of the exhausted crew, who were benumbed 

 with cold, completed the impression of the extent 

 of the danger from which we had so providentially 

 escaped. 



The gloomy sky having cleared up a little, the 

 ship began to proceed slowly towards the south- 

 east. At noon we descried the arid coasts of Istria, 

 on which the sun, just then breaking from the 

 clouds, threw a light strongly contrasted with the 

 darkness of the other parts of the scene. At this 

 moment no sight could be more welcome to us, 

 than that of what might be called a part of our 

 own country. We sailed past the little islands co- 

 vered with the olive and phillyrea, which lie at the 

 entrance of the harbour of Pola, and anchored 

 near the town. The passengers went on shore the 

 same evening to enjoy the sight of the fine Roman 



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