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rowly efcaped perifliing before they 

 reached the fliore. I now went to cap* 

 tain Cheap (who had the misfortune to 

 diflocate his Ihoulder by a fall the day 

 before, as he was going forward to get 

 the fore-yard fwayed up), and alked him 

 if he would not go on fliore ; but he 

 told me, as he had done before, that he 

 would be the laft to leave the fliip ; and 

 he ordered me to affift in getting the 

 men out as foon as poffible. I had been 

 with him very often from the time the 

 fliip firft ftruck, as he defired I would, 

 to acquaint him with every thing that 

 pafled ; and I particularly remarked, that 

 he gave his orders at that time with as 

 much coolnefs as ever he had done du- 

 ring the former part of the voyage. 



The fcene was now greatly changed ; 

 for many who but a few minutes 

 before had fliewn the ftrongeft figns 

 £>f defpair, and were on their knees 

 praying for mercy, imagining they 



were 



