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they haflened to the fhore, impatient to 
inform their comrades of their fuccefs; 
and alfo to procure from their vefTel fuch 
proviflons, ammunition, and other ne- 
ceflaries, as might better enable them to 
winter on the ifland. 
I leave my readers to figure to them- 
felves the aftonifhment and agony of mind 
thefe poor people mull have felt, when, 
on reaching the place of their landing, 
they faw nothing but an open fea, free 
from the ice, which, but a day before, had 
covered the ocean. A violent ftorm, 
which had arifen during the night, had 
certainly been the caufe of this difaftrous 
event. But they could not tell whether 
the ice which had before hemmed in the 
vefTel, agitated by the violence of the 
waves, had been driven c°;ainft her. and 
fhattered her to pieces; or whether fhe 
had been carried by the current into 
the main; a circumftance which fre- 
quently happens in thofe feas. Whatever 
accident ftad befallen the fhip, they faw 
her 
