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 favourable paage, and were in a tate to be enlivened by the ea-birds who flew twittering around us.

During the ucceeding twenty-four hours, the winds varied from North Wet to North Eat, and became at lat very changeable. The pat hour we were hurried along by a trong gale, and the next at ret in a dead calm. At noon our Latitude was 47° 30′, Longitude 48° 40′, with a very heavy irregular ea, in which the hip greatly laboured:. [sic] This lated, however, but for a few moments, when a heavy gale from the South Wet prang up, which was accompanied with rain, hail and now.

Under reefed fore-ail, and cloe-reefed main-top-ail, all the ail we could carry, we haped our coure, on the nearet angle, to Saint Helena, but before midnight, the ea roe to a prodigious height, broke on board of us, and tove in the dead lights, filled the after part of the hip with water, rendered ueles a chronometer, a extant, and detroyed charts and drawings that I had been even months employed in completing: alo damaged every thing in the cabin. We oon, however, fixed and ecured temporary dead lights, and pumped out the water, but ome of the michief done was irreparable.