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that we expecled, every inftant, the boat 

 would go down. But as the preferva- 

 tion of life had now, in a great meafure, 

 loft its aduating principle upon us, we 

 ftill kept pufliing through it, till we 

 opened a bay to the northward. In all 

 my life, I never faw fo dreadful a fea as 

 drove in here ; it began to break at more 

 than half a mile from the fhore. Per- 

 ceiving now that it was impoffible for 

 any boat to get round, the men lay upon 

 their oars till the boat was very near the 

 breakers, the mountainous fwell that 

 then ran, heaving her in at a great rate, 

 I thought it was their intention to put 

 an end to their lives and mifery at once ; 

 but nobody fpoke for fome time. At 

 iaft, captain Cheap told them, they mufl 

 either perifti immediately, or pull ftoutly* 

 for it to get off the fliore ; but they might 

 do as they pleafed. They chofe, how- 

 ever, to exert themfelves a little, and 

 after infinite difficulty, got round the 



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