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 in our wet cloaths. The froft coming 

 pn with the morning, it was impofliblq 

 for any of us to get a moment's fleep ; 

 and having flung overboard our provi- 

 fioa the day before, there being no pro- 

 fpe£l of finding any thing to eat on this 

 coaft, in the morning we pulled out of 

 the cove ; but found fo great a fea withr 

 out, that we could make but little of it. 

 After tugging all day, towards night 

 we put in among fome fmall iflands, 

 landed upon one of them, and found it 

 a mere fwamp. As the weather was 

 the fame, we pafled this night much as 

 we had done the preceding 5 fea-tangle 

 was all we could get to eat at firft, but 

 the next day we had better luck ; the 

 furgeon fliot a goofe, and we found ma- 

 terials for a good fire. We were con- 

 fined here three or four days, the weather 

 ^11 that time proving fo bad that we 

 could not put out. As foon as it grew 

 moderate, we left this place, and fliaped 



