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elevated than the reft. This manoeuvre fuc- 

 ceeded, and the people were able to wait 

 for the approach of morning on the top of 

 the mafts. The break of day, hoivever^ 

 did not extricate them from their alarming 

 fituation ; but,- at half after fix they had 

 fbme dawn of hope* Perceiving at a dif- 

 tancc a fmall ifland of fand, the whole crew 

 tranfported tbemfelves thither, in fuccelTion, 

 by means of a canoe^ which the captain, 

 with wife precaution, had caufed to he 

 launched into the fea, before the fatal mo- 

 ment when hisfiiip ftruck. Unluckily, this 

 ifland of fand was only a kind of Jhoal, 

 which became dry at low water. In this 

 cruel perplexity, the captain had no other 

 alternative but to fend his canoe to feck af- 

 fiftance on the coaft of Africa. The unfor- 

 tunate people who were difpatched in it, 

 eight days after their departure fell in, on 

 their palTage, with a rock, which they 

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