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MEMOIR OF 
fliimeR were now coming out of llie main liatchway, 
and seeing ihc rest of ihe crew, with the captain, 
gtill un bu^ird, ive jmlleti tmek to her uiultr Iter bowi, 
AO as to be more distant from tlje powder. As we 
approuclied we [lerceived ibat tin? peoples on board 
were getting into another boat on the opposite bidft. 
She pidled off— wo bailfid her; have yon all m 
Ward? Yea, :dl j^ave one. Who is be? Johnson, 
aick in liin cot. Can we Have liim ? No, impoitsii' 
b)e- Thii flames wtrts Uatimg (torn the haiehway. 
At diis momenr^ the poor fellow ncordied, 1 imagine, 
roared out mmi lustily^ havin;^ run upan derk. I 
will go fur him, hhvh the eaptain. The two boata 
then rame togellier, and we took out some of the 
per&onn from the eaptain'a boat, which waif over- 
laden ; he tht'ii [mlled under the bowsprit of ihe 
ship, and picked thi? poor fellow np. Ar« you all 
safe? Yea^ we have y^nt the man — all lives safe. 
Thank God i pull off from the ship. Keep your 
eye on a star, Sir Stamford, lliere ia one scarcely 
¥16) bio. 
" We then hauled dose to each oilier, and foimd 
the captain fortunately hail a compass, hut we ha<l 
no li|j,lit except from the ship. Our distance from 
Bencoolen we estimated to be about fifty miles in a 
south-west tlirection. There being no landing-place 
to the southward of Bencoolen, our only chance was 
to ri*y[ain that port The eapiain then undertook to 
lead, and we to f'jllo«', in a nonh norib-east cours-e, 
as well a» we could, no chance, no possibility being 
