9® COOK’s VOYAGE. 
detefled, and the Hidden joy which every man felt upon find- 
ing his fituation better than his fears had fuggefted, operated 
like a charm, and feemed to poffefs him with a llrong belief 
that fcar^e any real danger remained. New confidence and 
new hope, however founded, infpired new vigour; and though 
cur itaie was the fame as when the men firit began to llacken 
in their labour, through wearinefs and defpondency, they 
now renewed their efforts with fuch alacrity an.. fpirit, that 
befo.e e ght o’clock in the morning the leak was fo far from 
having gained upon the pumps, that the pumps had gained 
confi ier. bly upon the leak. Every body now talked of getting 
the fhip into (ome harbour, as a thing r.ct to be doubted, and 
as hands could be fpared from the pumps, they were employed 
in getting up the anchors : the ftream anchor and bell bower 
we had taken on board ; but it was found impofiible to fave 
the little bower, and therefore it was cut away at a whole 
cable ; we alfo loft the cable of the ftream anchor among the 
rocks ; but in our fituation thefe w'ere trifles which fcarcely at- 
tracted our notice. Our next bufinefs was to get up the fore- 
top-maft and fore-yard, and warp the fhip to the fouth-eaft, 
and at eleven, having now a breeze from the fea, we once 
more got under fail, and flood for the land. 
It was however impoflible long to continue the labour by 
which the pumps had been made to gain upon the leak, and 
as the exafl fltuation of it could not be aifcovered, we had no. 
hope of flopping it within. In this fituation, Mr. Monkhoufe, 
one of my midlhipmen, came to me and propofed an expe- 
dient that he had once feen ufed on board a merchant (hip* 
which fprung a leak that admitted above four feet water an 
hour, and which by this expedient was brought fafely from 
Virginia to London ; rhe mailer having fuch confidence in it,, 
that he took her out of harbour, knowing her condition, and 
did not think it worth while to wait till the leak could be 
otherwife flopped. To this man, therefore, the care of the 
expedient, which is called fathering the Ihip, was immediate- 
ly committed, four or five of the people being appointed to 
afiift him, and he performed it in this manner : He took a 
lower ftudding fail, and having mixed together a large quan- 
tity of oakham and wool, chopped pretty fmall, he Hitched it 
down in handfuls upon the fail, as lightly as poflible, and 
over this he ffpread the dung of our Iheep and other filth ; but 
horfe dung if we had had it, would have been better. When 
the fail was thus prepared, it w^s hauled under the Ihip’s bot- 
tom by ropes, which kept it extended, and when it came un- 
der the leak, the fuftion which carried in the water, carried in 
wich it the oakham and wool from the furface of the fail, 
which in other parts the water was not fufliciently agitated to 
walh off. By the fuccefs of this expedient our leak was fo far 
reduced. 
