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that night at least remain in the Lion, continued the ship 
under sail. Our Spaniards tugged away pretty lustily at the 
oars for about two hours ; but, perceiving we were already 
out in the open sea, without appearing to advance in the least 
upon the ship, they at length began to talk of returning. By 
way of encouragement, some of us took a spell at the oar, 
while others chinked the dollars ; and in this manner we kept 
jogging on for about an hour longer, when one of them, looking 
stedfastly at the moon, declared it was going to blow a hur- 
ricane, and that they must immediately make the best of 
their way to the shore. Nothing could be more embarrassing 
than our present situation. The Lion was now also under 
way, and fully as distant from us as the Hindostan. The 
portentous appearance of the moon seemed completely to 
have dissolved the charm which the music of the dollars for a 
time produced. It was now near midnight ; the sky became 
murky, and the sea much agitated. Under such circum- 
stances, we were just on the point of concluding with the 
Spaniards that it would not be very ad\ iseable to encounter a 
storm in an open boat, in the middle of the night, at the dis- 
tance of ten or tweh e miles from the nearest shore, when the, 
only thing happened that could possibly have relieved us from 
the awkward dilemma in which we were placed : — a dead 
calm ensued. Still we were at a considerable distance from 
the ship ; but shaking the dollars had now its proper effect, 
and the exertions they procured brought us at length safely 
on board. ■ . 
Within the limits of the trade winds, which on the nortliern 
side of the line extend sometimes to the 28th parallel of lati- 
