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 beneath its weight, ſhivered, and remained motiveleſs--it was a moment of critical suſpenſe: ſa made me think I felt her gradually deſcending--I gave myſelf up as gone, and ſummoned my fortitude to bear approaching death with  coming manhood.

"Juſt at this criſis, the water, which with incredible force though all parts of the veſſel brought it out floating, and nearly ſuffocated, and  Engliſh paſſenger, who was endeavouring  take a little repoſe in a ſmall cabin boarded off from the deck: he was a very ſtout young man, and  of true ſpirit. Finding that the veſſel was not,  had thought, going immediately down, he  me in exhorting the captain to his duty: we perſuaded him to throw the guns overboard, as well  a number of trunks and packages with which  veſſel was much encumbered; and with ſome  exertion, we got the pumps ſet a going."

The name of the Engliſh paſſenger juſt mentioned was Hall. He was a young man of a moſt amiable diſpoſition, and with it poſſeſſed all that ſpirit that gives preſence of mind in exigences  danger. He and Capt. Campbell having, great difficulty, got ſome hands to ſtick to  pumps, ſtood at the wheel, at once to aſſiſt  men, and prevent them from quitting it and  hopeleſs, determined that no effort practicable on their parts ſhould be wanting to the preſervation of the veſſel. The water, however, gained upon the pumps, notwithſtanding every and it evidently appeared that they could not  her long above water.

At ten o'clock the wind ſeemed to increaſe, amounted to a downright hurricane: the ſky  ſo entirely obſcured with black clouds, and the  fell ſo thick, that objects were not diſcernable