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iaftantly carried to a coafiderable diftance^ 
We faw him ftretch out his arms to us ; but the 
wind hurried us on with fuch violence, that 
we could only throw fome empty barrels and 
a few hencoops into the fea. This even 
could not be done with fufficient fpeed; and, 
had any of thefe frail fupporcs reached him, 
ir would only have prolonged his fuiFering, 
and given him death twenty times over. 
The twenty-third of October we fell in 
with tv\^o fmall French veflels returning from 
the cod-fifhery. We purchafed of them a 
fufficiency for our little fleet ; and it proved a 
very feafonable fupply, for our provifion v/as 
coafiderably diminhhed, and v/e had beea 
badly fed for a long time. Thefe two fifliing 
veffels, being bound to Bayonne, would of 
courfe arrive in port before us ; and I availed 
myfelf of the opportunity to inform my fa- 
mily^ and my friends in Flolland, of my near 
arrival. 
On the thirtieth v^^e faw feveral parts of a 
wreck, and, among the reft, a mafi: almoft 
whole, which came along-fide of our fhip. 
This fad fpedacle announced to us that fome 
<;alamity had happened during the laft ftorm. 
I i ? At 
