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AN ACCOUNT OF 
17S3. Captain Wilson was obliged to compel him to go into 
GUST. 
the jolly-boat, fo anxious was he to provide and take with 
him whatever he thought might contribute to their fu¬ 
ture relief. 
Thus with aching hearts, and deep melancholy, they 
quitted the Antelope, totally ignorant of their future def- 
tiny. The pinnace, with fome of the flouted of the fhip’s 
crew, took the raft in tow; the jolly-boat alfo aflifted, by 
towing the pinnace till they had cleared the reef; after 
which, being too heavily laden to be of much further aid, 
thole in the pinnace call loofe their rope, and the jolly-boat 
proceeded alone to the Ihore, where they arrived about eight 
o'clock at night, and found their companions who had been 
left in the morning. Thefe few men had not been idle, or un¬ 
mindful of their fellow-fufferers; having employed them- 
felves in clearing away a fpot of ground, and had erected a 
finall tent with a fail, in readinefs for their reception. The 
lituation both of thofe on the raft, as well as thofe in the 
pinnace, was truly dreadful till they had cleared the reef 
(which was more than half an hour) ; by the great furf and 
fpray of the fea, the pinnace and raft were often out of 
light of each other; thofe on the latter were obliged to 
tie themfelves, and cling to it with all their ftrength, to 
prevent being walhed off; and the Ihrieks of the Cbinefe y 
lefs inured to the perils of an element they were then 
conflicting with, did not a little aggravate the horror of 
the fcene. 
Having 
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