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^ere happy to put back again to the old 

 place, with little hopes of ever getting 

 round this cape. 



Next day, the weather proving very 

 bad, all hands went afliore to procure 

 fome fuftenance, except two in each 

 boat, which were left as boat-keepers : 

 this office w^e took by turns ; and it was 

 now my lot to be upon this duty with 

 another man. The yawl lay within us 

 at a grapnel ; in the night it blew very 

 hard, and a great fea tumbled in upon 

 the fiiore ; but being extremely fatigued^ 

 we in the boats went to fleep ; notwith- 

 ftanding, however, I was at laft awakened 

 by the uncommon motion of the boar^ 

 and the roaring of the breakers every 

 whereabout us. At the fame time I 

 heard a (hrieking, like to that of perfons 

 in diftrefs ; I looked out, and faw the yawl 

 canted bottom upwards by a fea, and foon 

 afterwards difappeared. One of our 



G men, 



