A Voyage to 



there came up fuch a violent Wind at N. W. and W. W. 

 and fuch a dreadful Sea, that we were obliged to ftrike 

 our Mizzen-Yard and Top-Maft to the very utmoft. Being 

 difgufted and tired with fuch a long Voyage, it griev'd me 

 to the Heart that I had expos' d myfelf to fuch Hardlhips, 

 being not only fenfible of the prefent Evils, but in Fear for 

 what was to come, if, as had hapned to feveral other Ships, 

 we fliould be obliged to return and winter in the River of 

 Plate, dreadful for its bad Anchorage, the Guftsof Wind, 

 the Sand-Banks, and the Shipwrecks fome of our Officers 

 had been in. I compared the eafy Life of the moft wretched 

 Perfons alhore, with that of a Man of fome Confideration 

 aboard a Ship in a Storm ; the fine Weather we had in 

 ^Europe about the 27th of May, with thofe dark Days, 

 which were not above fix Hours long, and afforded us no 

 more Light than a fine Moonfhine-Night ; the Beauty of 

 the Fields adorn'd with Flowers, with the Horror of the 

 Waves that fwell'd up like Mountains the fweet Repofe 

 a Man enjoys on a green Turf, with the Agitation and per- 

 petual Shocks of fo violent a Rolling, that unlefs a Man 

 grafped fomething that was well made faft, there was 

 no ftanding, fitting or lying,- which had held us for 

 near a Month, without Intermi(Tion : All this, added to 

 the Remembrance of the terrible Night at Streight le Make, 

 did fo difpirit me, that I was overcome with Grief, and 

 then bethought myfelf of the Complaints of Europa, Ho- 

 race, L. 3. Ode 2j.& Sat. 6. L. 2. 



— — Meliufne flutfus 

 Ire per longos fait, an recent es 



Carpere fiores ? 

 O Rm ! quando ego te afpiciam? quandoque licebit 

 Nunc veterum libris, nunc fomno, & inert ibus horis 

 Ducere follicita jucunda obl'wia vita ? 



It was our good Fortune that the Storm lafted but 24 

 Hours k after which, a N» W* Wind coming up by the 



Weft, 



