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268 GREAT PERIL OF THE VINCENNES, JR. 
evening. After awhile, however, ‘a change came o’er 
the spirit of their dream,’ in the shape of a gale of windy 
when they would fain have run into some of the ‘ quiet 
coves* that had befriended them so far ; but unfortunately 
they had arrived at a long stretch of iron-bound coast by 
that time, that warned them that their greatest safety now 
consisted in keeping at a reasonable distance from the 
land : so they had to work through it as best they could, 
eating cold and uncooked provisions, being knocked 
about in a most dangerous manner by the heavy seas, 
and passing altogether any thing but a pleasant time. 
‘^I^ow, as long as that state of things lasted, they were 
s in great danger ; but they were fortunately included 
among Bunsby’s tailors and sparrows, and got to the end 
of the iron-bound coast in safety, after having narrowly 
escaped foundering one unusually stormy night. The 
heavy wmather still continued, however, and made the 
rest of the passage rough and dangerous in the extreme: 
still, they accomplished it with safety, if not comfort, as 
far as the northeast point, where they encountered the 
tide-idp which had caused us of the ^ old John’ so much 
annoyance, but which their little craft then crossed quite 
easily, there being only a moderate breeze by that time, 
while wo had had a gale following us. 
“In short, she arrived safely in Ha-ko-da-di on her 
tv^enty-first night out, much to our relief and greatly to 
the surprise of the Japanese fishermen, who wondered 
greatly to see a craft of her size cruising along their 
stormy coasts. That same day she was unrigged and 
hoisted into the Vincennes again, and thus was her 
perilous voyage happily terminated. The foregoing is a 
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