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T was now the eightenth of May when we ſailed from Goa. The hemiſphere had been ſome days overcaſt with clouds: ſome light of rain had fallen; and it certainly did not d d to raiſe my ſpirits, and free me from my ominous apprehenſions, to hear that thoſe circumſtances  an approaching gale of wind. I obſerved, moreover, that the veſſel was much too deep in the, being greatly overloaded—that ſhe was in reſpects defective, and, as the ſeamen ſay, ill-, and, and in ſhort very unfit to encounter a gale  wind of any violence. I ſcorned, however, to