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 had now an heavy ea, torrents of rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, and winds from every point of the compas, though principally from Eat to South Eat, which blew right into the roads we had left; and it is more than probable, from the tate of our cable, and not laying more than a mile and an half from the hore, that, if we had attempted to ride out the gale, the hip would have been lot. It was, indeed, one of the wort nights I had experienced ince I left Cape Horn.

On the third day of December, we got in with the hore again, and oberving the jolly-boat alone, I felt the everet anxiety repecting the other boat and crew. We hove too, with the head off hore, and the whaling mater was dipatched with every one on board, except myelf, to acertain what had become of them. Fortunately no accident had happened, except the wetting they had undergone from the violence of the rain, and the whale boat which I had mied, with ome olicitude, had been taken by them on a fihing party, in order to bring a upply of fih on board the hip. I allowed the ick crew one day more to be on hore, and changed the party which was on board during the gale, to accompany them. During the whole