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A VOYAGE TO 
l 7 rif l ea f'°ned trees very fit for our purpofe. One of thefe was 
pitched upon; and the carpenters began, without lofs of 
time, to make out of it two new cheeks. 
Tuefday 7. In the morning of the 7th, we got the fore-maft out, and 
hauled it afhore; and the carpenters of the fhips were fet 
to work upon it. Some parts of the lower Handing rigging 
having been found to be very much decayed, as we had 
time now to put them in order, while the carpenters were 
repairing the fore-maft, I ordered a new fet of main-rigging 
to be fitted, and a more perfect fet of fore-rigging to be fe- 
ledted out of the beft parts of the old. 
From the time of our putting into the Sound till now, the 
weather had been exceedingly fine, without either wind or 
rain. That comfort, at the very moment when the conti¬ 
nuance of it would have been of moft fervice, was with- 
Wednef. 8 . drawn. In the morning of the 8th, the wind frefhened at 
South Eaft, attended with thick hazy weather and raip. In 
the afternoon the wind increafed; and, toward the evening, 
it blew very hard indeed. It came, in exceflively heavy 
fqualls, from over the high land on the oppofite fhore, right 
into the cove; and, though the fhips were very well moor¬ 
ed, put them in fome danger. Thefe tempeftuous blafts 
fucceeded each other pretty quick; but they were of fhort 
duration; and in the intervals between them we had a per- 
fe£t calm. According to the old proverb, Misfortunes fel- 
dom come fingle; the mizen was now the only maft on 
board the Refolution that remained rigged, with its top- 
maft up. The former was fo defective, that it could not 
fupport the latter during the violence of the fqualls, but 
gave way at the head under the rigging. About eight 
o’clock the gale abated; but the rain continued with very 
little intermifiion for feveral days; and, that the carpenters 
might 
