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THE WRECK.
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fore jeer blocks breaking, the fore-yard came
down; and the greater part of the men being
disabled through fatigue and sickness, it was
some time before it could be got up again.
The few hands who were employed in this
business now plainly saw the land on the
larboard beam, bearing N. W., upon which
the ship was driving bodily. Orders were
then given immediately by the captain to
sway the fore-yard up, and set the fore-sail;
which done, we wore ship with her head to
the southward, and endeavoured to crowd
her off from the land : but the weather, from
being exceedingly tempestuous, blowing now
a perfect hurricane, and right in upon the
shore, rendered our endeavours entirely fruit¬
less.
CHAPTER II.
THE WRECK.
In the morning, about four o’clock, the
ship struck. The shock we received upon
this occasion, though very great, being not
unlike the blow of a heavy sea, such as in
the series of preceding storms we had often