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waves, without shipping any more water. This CHAP. 
was remarked by our undaunted Captain, f 
stationed with his crew at the helm, who 
exclaimed, " Let us see one of your frigates in 
such a sea as this: there is not one of them, 
could weather it like my little caique/" We Vcssel 
driven to 
passed like lightning within a cable's length of the South 
of Naxos, 
some dreadful rocks, over which the sea was 
dashing as high as our mast head ; until getting 
under the lee, to the south of Naxos, we ran the 
vessel aground, close to a small creek, upon 
some white sand,. 
Within this creek another small bark had taken 
shelter; the crew of which, seeing our situation, 
came to assist our Captain in getting his caique off 
the sand, and in hauling her farther up the creek, 
in which they happily succeeded. We then cast 
anchor, and began to examine the state of our 
baggage. Like true shipwrecked mariners, wet 
to the skin, and without a dry thread on board, 
we opened all our stores upon the rocks, to 
expose our clothes in the beams of the sun. 
Every article of our linen was completely soaked ; 
but, to our great joy, the Patmos Manuscripts 
had escaped, and were safe. We had put them 
into a small, but stout wooden box, in the 
stern of the vessel ; and had covered this with 
