83 
COO K ’s VOYAGE. 
While we were thus employed, day broke upon us, and we 
faw the Land at about eight leagues diitance, without any ifland 
in the intermediate Ipace, upon which, if (lie Ihip fhould have 
gene to pieces, we might have been fet afhore by the boats, 
and from which they might have taken us by different turns to 
the main : the wind however gradually died away, and early 
in the forenoon it was a dead calm; if it had blown hard the 
ihip mult inevitably have been deftroyed. At 1 1 in the forenoon 
we expected high water, and anchors were got out, and every 
thing made ready for another effort to heave her oft if (he ftioi ld 
Hoat, but to our inexprefiible fur prize and concern fhe did not 
float by | foot, though we had lightened her near fifty ton, 
fo much did the day-tide fall fnort of that in the night. We 
now proceeded to lighten her ftil, more, and threw overboard 
every thing that it was poflible for us to fpare : hitherto (Lie 
had not admitted much water, but as the tide fell, it rufhed in 
io fali^, that two pumps, inceftantly worked, could fear ely 
keep her free. At two o’clock fhe lay heeling two or three 
breaks to ftarboard, and the pinnace, which lay under her bows, 
touched the ground : we had now no hope but from the tide 
at midnigh-, and to prepare for it we carried out our two 
bower anchors, one on the ftarboard quarter, and the other 
right a-ftern, got the blocks and tackle which were to give us 
a purchafe upon the cables in order, and brought the falls, or 
ends of them, in abaft, ftraining them tight, that the next 
eftort might operate upon the Ihip, and by fhortening the 
length of the cable between that and the anchors, draw her off 
the ledge upon which fhe refted, towards the deep water. 
About five o’clock in the afternoon, we obferved the tide be- 
gin to rife, but we obferved at the fame time that the leak in- 
creased to a moft alarming degree, fo that two more pumps 
were manned, but unhap ily only one of them would work ; 
three of the pumps however were kept goirrg, and at nine 
o’clock the fhip righted, but the leak had gained upon us Jo 
coniiderably, that it v/as imagined fhe muft go to the bottom as 
foon as fhe leafed to be fupported by the.rock , this was a dread- 
ful circumftance, fo that we anticipated the floating of the fhip 
not as an earned of deliverance, but as an event that would 
probably precipitate our deftruftion. We well knew that cur 
boats were not capable of carrying us all on fhore, and that 
when the dreadful criiis fhould arrive, as all command and fub- 
ordination would be at an end, a conteft for preference would 
probably enfue, that would encreafe the horrors even of fhip- 
wreck, and terminate in the deftrudtion of us all by the hands 
of each other ; yet we knew that if any (hould be left on board 
to perifli in the waves, they would probably fuffer lefs upon 
the whole than thofe who fhould get on fhore, without any 
lafting 
