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unexpededly fell in with the iflcs of Jeaa 

 de Nova* The captain wiHied to pafs tp 

 windward, and by tiiis manoeuvre avoid the 

 dangers whix;h threatened him. As ibon as 

 Le bad doubled them,, he directed his courfe 

 to the N, E. 4 with a vie\v of fliortening 

 his paflage by feme days j for he was fen- 

 fible that he ought not to negle£i: any thing 

 ihat might haftcn his arrival at Bengal, be- 

 caufe the feafon was too far advanced. But 

 in this route, t]ie vcflel in the middle of the 

 jiight was driven upon fome low flats, which 

 kft no hopes of her fafety, Thefe flats 

 were furround^id by a chain of breakers, 

 which augmented the fears of the crew : 

 all their exertions w^cre of no avail, and the 

 veffci was juft on the point of being dafhed 

 to pieces, when the captain threw out an 

 anchor in fuch a manner as gave him reafon 

 to conclude that the ihlp would be wrecked 

 on one of the flats which was a little more 



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