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 out faccefs, the tempeftuous weathef 

 obliging us fo often to put back again* 

 One of our people was much inclined 

 to remain here, thinking ic at leaft as 

 good a place as Wager s Ifland to end 

 his days upon ; but he was obliged by 

 the reft to go off with them. We had 

 not been long out before it began to 

 blow a ftorm of wind j and the mift 

 came on fo thick, that we could not fee 

 the land, and were at a lofs which way 

 to fteer ; but we heard the fea, which 

 ran exceedingly high, breaking near us ; 

 upon which we immediately hauled aft 

 the flieet, and hardly weathered the 

 breakers by a boat's length. At the 

 fame time we fliipped a fea that nearly 

 filled us : it ftruck us with that violence 

 as to throw me, and one or two more, 

 down into the bottom of the boat, where 

 we were half drowned before we could 

 get up again. This was one of the 

 moft extraordinary efcapes we had in 



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