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the people as long as poflible j for hi 

 ofterl faid afterwards, he thought there 

 was not the leaft chance of a fingle 

 man^s being faved. We now run in 

 between an opening of the breakers, 

 fleering by the flieets and braces, when 

 providentially we ftuck fail between two 

 great rocks ; that to windward flieltering 

 us in fome meafure from the violence 

 x)f the fea. We immediately cut away 

 the main and foremaft; but the fiiip kept 

 beating in fuch a manner, that we ima- 

 gined (he could hold together but a 

 very Jittle while. The day now broke, 

 and the weather, that had been extremely 

 thick, cleared away for a few moments, 

 and gave us a glimpfe of the land not 

 far from us. We now thought of no- 

 thing but faving pur lives. To get the 

 boats out, as our mafts were gone, was a 

 work of fome time ; which when ac- 

 compliflied, many were ready to jump 

 into the firft, by which means they nar- 



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