Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

158 ADVENTURES IN THE BOATS,
mal had been seen the day before, but met
with no success ; so returned to the some bay
we had been in the night before, where the
surf having abated somewhat, we went ashore,
and picked up a few shell-fish. In the morn¬
ing, we got on board early, and ran along
shore to the westward, for about three leagues,
in order to get round a cape, which was the
westernmost land we could see. It blew very
hard, and there ran such a sea, that we hear¬
tily wished ourselves back again, and accord¬
ingly made the best of our way for the bay
which we had left in the morning; but before
we could reach it night came on, and we pass¬
ed a most dismal one, lying upon our oars.
The weather continuing very bad, we put in
for the shore in the morning, where we found
nothing but tangle and sea-weed. We now
passed some days roving about for provisions,
as the weather was too bad to make another
attempt to get round the cape as yet. We
found some fine Lagoons towards the head of
the bay, and in them killed some seal, and
got a good quantity of shell-fish, which was
a great relief to us. We now made a second
attempt to double the cape ; but when we got
the length of it. and passed the first headland,