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on for day-light, when we ran up and anchored in Cowes road, Iſle of Wight.
This voyage occupied twenty-two months, and after doubling Cape Horn, we met only with one Engliſh and two Spaniſh ſhips in the Pacific Ocean; nor did we touch at any known port but Rio Janeiro in going out, and Saint Helena on our return home. It is not the leaſt of my ſatisfactions to mention, that except the loſs of one man by an unforeſeen accident, the whole of the crew conſiſting only of twenty-five men and boys, were preſerved during this long, fatiguing, and perilous voyage.
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