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 prevailed on me to make a voyage for that purpose. WoWe [sic] fitted out a ship of about 120 tons burden, which earriedcarried [sic] six guns and fourteen men, besides the master, his boy, and myself.

In this vessel I set sail. We had very good weather for about twelve days; but soon after we had crossed the line, a violent hurrieanehurricane [sic] drove us quite out of our reekoningreckoning [sic], and for many days together not any in the ship expected to save their lives. In this distress, one of our men early one morning eriedcried [sic] out, “Land!” and we had no sooner run out of the eabincabin [sic], in hopes of seeiugseeing [sic] where we were, but the ship struck upon a shoal. It is not easy to eoneeiveconceive [sic] our eonsternationconsternation [sic]; for as



thothe [sic] rage of the sea was great, we supposed that the ship would, in a few minutes, break to pieeespieces [sic]. We had a boat on board, whiehwhich [sic] the mate laid hold of, and with the help of thothe [sic] rest of thothe [sic] men flung her over the ship’s side, and getting all into her, committed ourselves to God’s mereymercy [sic]. We steered towards land,