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Men inclineablc to keep on their Courfe i a quatter after one of the Clock, he 
ordered the Mizan and Sprit-Sails to be trimnned, and the Ships Head turned 
^orth'Eafl, the Wind being then North, Nerth-f^efi: but immediately after it 
cfSnged,and for half an hours fpace did nothing butfliiftand turn, through all the 
NowS Points of the Compafs, betwixt JVed and Eaft: Our Men being then put 
to a fiand, and not knowing what to do, defired that we might come to Anchors 
but the Captain would not, faying that we were in too deep water, and he was in 
the right, for we had above five and twenty Fathom water. I had prelTed him to 
it as much as I could, (whilft it was time,) reprefenting toliim the danger to which 
his condefcenfion expofed the Ship, and telling him that a wife Pilot (hould fore- 
fee the danger that he may prevent it, and not run headlong into the famei and 
as he made me anfwer, that when he would have done it he was not obeyed, 
which (hewed him to be in a great paflion -, I rcplyed to him, that on an occafion, 
fuch as this, he ought to make himfelf obeyed » that we had but little day to 
come,and that in the night-time, we (hould be in great danger of Shipwrack, being 
fo near Land. 
At length, feeing the Air on all Hands full of tempeftuous Clouds, he ordered 
the Ships Head to be turned North-Wefi, which was very hard to be done, for the 
Sea hindered the Ship from coming about, though the Wind was then at Ea(i î 
and we flood in to ^efomo, near which about a quarter after two, we came to 
an Anchor in fevcn and twenty Fathom water, to the Seuth of that I iland i fo that 
we put back again above a League. Then the Pilot was for bringing the Yards 
by the Board, and lowering the Main-Top, and Fore-Top- Mafts, fearing they might 
be damaged by the ftorm^ but the Captain would not give way to it. During 
the reft of the day we had many flurries, with continual fliowers of Rain i but 
whilft thefe arc blowing over, I will enlarge a little in the defcription of the Spouts, 
which I have only occalionally mentioned. 
I am apt to believe that few have confidered Spouts with fo much attention, as A defcripi 
I did thofe 1 have been fpeaking of, and perhaps no man hath made the Obferva- Spouts, 
tions, which chance gave me the occafion of making i I (liall here give an account 
of them, with that plainnefs I profefs in the Relation of all my Travels, thereby 
to render things mere fenfible and cafie to be comprehended. 
The firft we faw, was to the Northvpord, betwixt us and the Ifle of ^uefomo.^ 
about a Musket (hot from the Ship : we were then Steering North-Eajl. The firft 
thing we perceived in that place was the water boyling up about a Foot high above 
thefurfaceof the Sea i it looked whitifh, and over it, there appeared /omewhat like 
a blackifti fmoak, but not very thick , fo that the whole looked very like a bundle 
of ftraw fet on fire, but only as yet fmoaking, (fee the Figure A :) tbis made 
a dullnoife, like to a Torrent running impttuoufly in a deep Valley i but it was 
mingled with another fomewhat more diftin^ noife, refembling the loud hiffing 
of Serpents 'or Geefe. A little after, we faw as it were a dark puff of fteam, 
much like to a fmoak which turning very faft, tapers up to the Clouds i and this 
puff feemed to be a Pipe as big as ones Finger > (fee the Figure B 0 the fame noife 
fiill continuing. Then the light put it out of our fight j and we knew that that 
Spout was fpent, becaufe the water boyled no more up -, fo that it lafted not above 
half a quarter of an hour. This being fpent, we faw another Sottthroard of us, 
which began in the fame manner, as the former did j prefcntly after, there appeared 
another by the fide of this PFeftrvard i and then a third by the fide of the fécond. 
The moft remote of the three, might have been fomewhat more than a Musket 
(hot diftant from us, and all the three appeared like fo many bundles of Straw, a 
Foot and a half, or two Foot high, that yielded a great deal of fmoak i (fee the 
Figure A) and made the very fame noife that the firft did. Afterward we faw 
fo many Pipes reaching down from the Clouds, upon the places where the water 
bubbled, and every one of thefe Pipes, at the end which joyned to the Cloud, 
was as large as the wide end of a Trumpet and refembled (that I may ex- 
plain my felf intelligibly) the Teat or Dug of a Beaft, ftreatched perpendicu- 
larly downwards by fome weight i (fee the Figure, C. ) Thefe Channels or 
Pipes feemed to be of a paleifh white, and I believe it was the water in thefe 
tranfparent Pipes,^ which made them look white i for in all appearance they were 
already formed before the water was fuckt up in them, as may be judged by what 
follows > and when they were empty they appeared not > in the fame manner as a 
" Glafs 
