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CHAP, fliip weighed anchor, and I failed up with them till before 



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. the fortrefs Zelandia, where they moored, and were falut- 

 ed by a few guns. Among the officers, I with pleafure 

 recoUedled my old fliip-mate, poor Enfign HelTeling, 

 whom we had left behind us on the Heider, according 

 to every appearance dying of the fmall-pox, when we 

 failed from the Texel, the 24th of December, 1772. 

 This young man, who now joined us with rank of fe- 

 cond lieutenant, had been peculiarly unfortunate fince 

 his recovery ; for, foon after taking a palTage on board 

 another Ihip for Surinam, the vefTel encountered a 

 gale in the Bay of Bifcay ; when off Cape Finifterre, 

 her quarter -gallery and rudder were beat away ; be- 

 fides which fhe loft her fore-maft and main-top-maft. 

 In this dangerous condition, having the wind againft her 

 for Lifbon, the veffel run with difficulty into Plymouth. 

 From this place Mr. HelTeling took a palTage for France, 

 '\ on board a fmall floop loaded with coals, with which he 



had no better fuccefs ; for fhe ran, through the inad- 

 vertence of the mafter, on the CafketSj which rocks went 

 through her bottom, asid fhe foundered immediately. Be- 

 fore the velTel funk, however, he had time to break open 

 his cheft, and take out fome linen and other neceffaries, 

 with which he arrived in a crazy yaul at Breft. He now 

 took fhipping again for Amfterdam, on board a Dutchman ; 

 but the mafter ran the fhip a-ground, and he had nearly 

 been once more wrecked. Never thelefs he arrived fafe' 

 at the Texel, whence he had twice in vain attempted 



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