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hours at fea before the wind fliifted 

 more to the weftward, and began to blow 

 very hard, and the fea ran extremely high j 

 fo that we could no longer keep our 

 heads towards the cape or headland we 

 had defigned for. This cape we had 

 had a view of in one of the intervals of 

 fair weather, during our abode on the 

 ifland^from Mount Mifery ^ and it feem- 

 ed to be diftant between twenty and 

 thirty leagues from us. Wc were now 

 obliged to bear away right before the 

 wind. Though the yawl was not far 

 from us, we could fee nothing of her, 

 except now and then, upon the top of a 

 rnountainous fea. In both the boats, 

 the men were obliged to fit as clofe as 

 poffible, to receive the feas on their backs, 

 to prevent their filling us, which wa^ 

 'what we every moment expefted. We 

 were obliged to throw every thing over- 

 board to lighten the boats, all our beef, 

 and even the grapnel, to prevent finking. 



