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Upon discovering his situation, however, and 

 seeing that it would take some time to beat 

 back under sail, in order to adjust the rigging 

 at his ease, he hoisted up one sail, and made 

 for a small island in the bay, running down be- 

 fore the wind. Here he accomplished his ob- 

 ject, and began his little voyage back, when a 

 heavy gust of wind, to which this latitude is 

 very subject, upset the boat before he could 

 lower the sail. This was a calamitous pros- 

 pect. The boat turned keel upwards, and 

 the stores were lost; whilst the poor fellow^ 

 who had scrambled on to the keel, was seen 

 to float helplessly away, at the mercy of wind 

 and waves, until lost to sight, and gone for 

 ever. 



The eyes of all the party had been anxiously 

 riveted upon this fearful spectacle, and they now 

 found themselves at least three or four days 5 



