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heavy chair on deck was driven through the sky-light, 
which was open, and struck me on the head ; but in 
consequence of its faUing in an inclining direction, the 
wound was slight compared with what it might have 
been. 
On the 20th we crossed the tropic of Capricorn, 
just at the time of our worship on deck, which the 
passengers and seamen attended, and which they con- 
tinued regularly to do all the rest of the voyage, on the 
sabbath : they also received tracts and books, which 
fnost of them read with apparent attention. 
On the 2I4th in the morning we observed a mass of 
thick clouds far a-head, which the captain supposed 
were attracted by the island of St. Helena, which in 
the afternoon was found to be the case, for the high land 
wa^i visible, but being too distant to reach it during 
day light, the fleet stood off to windward during 
the night, expecting to reach the roadstead in the 
morning. 
Day light next morning gave us a fine view of the 
south side and east end of the island, which had a 
bleak appearance, and seemed inaccessible at all 
points. At ten, A.M. we descried about ten ships 
lying at anchor, and at noon we anchored among 
them opposite to James-town. Thus in twelve days 
we had sailed more than sixteen hundred miles, having 
had a fair wind the whole way. 
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