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turbanee happen to break out afrefh. To guard 
ss much as poffible againft furprlfe, I bcgaa 
with putting out the light; then having 
changed the direftion of my bed, and placed 
my fufee, which was well loaded, by my 
fide, I waited the return of day, fleeping as I 
could. In the intervals of my fleep, I heard, 
from thofe who walked the deck, the mofl fe- 
ditious difcourfe, threatening the next day to 
fhow no favour to any one : I faw fome of them 
fafs before my cabin, and they appeared to ele- 
?vate their voices that I might hear them. At 
length, day-light appeared : delightful day- light, 
^hich diflipates the phantoms of the imagl- 
Xiatlon, and renders alfo the wicked lefs daring 
and prefumptuous ! What we had hoped came 
to pafs ; refled:ion, and ftill more perhaps the 
^dread of a well-deferved punifliment, had 
calmed the fury of the moft vehement. Pei- 
cheron, judicioufly embracing fo favourable a 
moment, addreffed them in a moft animated 
fpeech, in which he painted in lively colours 
the wrongs and injuftice of this rebellion, and 
the fevere penalties which the law inflids for 
fuch crimes ; then, artfully afcribing the caufe 
pf the mifchief to the perfidy of thofe whpfe 
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