4§4 TRAVEL S IN 
At length, on the firft of November, we came 
in fight of the coafts of Europe, and were in- 
ceflantly beaten about by contrary winds, till 
we reached the chops of the Channel, where 
we were Hopped, with more than two hun- 
dred other vefiels, returning from all parts of 
the globe, and w^hich were detained there, as 
well as ourfelves, by contrary winds. But 
what was our furprife, when the Middelbourg, 
which we had fuppofed to have been loft off the 
Cape of Needles with all her crew, appeared 
among the number ! In the excefs of my 
joy, I would have taken one of the boats and 
gone to her : but the fea was fo rough that 
none of the failors would venture to row me ; 
it was indeed tremendous. The unfortu- 
tunate Middelbourg appeared to me to be in 
a worfe condition than ourfelves, and to be 
almoft ihattered to pieces. She looked, fo to 
fpeakj like an invalid whom a relapfe would 
infallibly deftroy. Nobody would join me 
in this fad prefage 5 yet it was the fame day 
verified. 
Scarcely had we entered the Channel, when 
a great mift arofe. It every moment grew 
thicker; and the wind began to blow a ftorm, 
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