overtaken by a sudden tempest that obliged the captain to lower his yards, and take all necessary precautions to prevent being wrecked. But in vain! The sails were split in a thousand pieces, and the ship was stranded; some of the merchants and seamen were drowned, and the cargo was lost.
I had the good fortune, with several of the merchants and mariners, to get upon some planks, and we were carried by the current to an island which lay before us. There we found
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