damage done th£ shii>< 305 
deep Water, and out of all danger. Great was 
the joy, as may well be imagined, which this 
circumstance diffused amongst the passengers; 
and well pleased was each one, after the fa¬ 
tigue and anxiety of the preceding day, to 
think he might securely lay himself down to 
rest. 
The next morning the sun arose in all his ; 
majesty from behind one of the distant islands* 
The azure sky was unobscured by a single 
cloud, the air felt serenely mild, and the birds, 
as if equally delighted with man that the storm 
was over, sweetly warbled forth their songs in 
the adjacent woods; in short, had it not been 
for the disordered condition in which we saw 
our vessel, and every thing belonging to us, the 
perils we had gone through would have ap¬ 
peared like a dream. 
The first object of examination was the rud-^ 
dcr. The tiller was broken to atoms; and the 
sailors who went over the stern reported, that 
of the four gudgeons or hooks on which tlfe 
rudder was suspended, only one was left entire, 
and that one was much bent. On being un¬ 
shipped, the bottom of it was found to be so 
much shivered that it actually resembled the 
end of a broom. The keel, there was every 
reason to suppose, was in the same shattered 
condition ; nevertheless the vessel, to the great 
astonishment of every person on board, did not 
vod, si. 
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