MELANCHOLY CONSEQUENCES
OF TWO
SEA STORMS, &c.
An account of the Shipwreck of a Portuguese Snow,. on her passage from Goa to Madras-in the year 1782, related by one of the Sufferers.
IT was now the eightenth of May when we sailed from Goa. The hemisphere had been for some days overcast with clouds: some light showers of rain had fallen: and it certainly did not (illegible text)nd to raise my spirits, and free me from my ominous apprehensions, to hear that those circumstances indicated an approaching gale of wind. I observed, moreover, that the vessel was much too deep in the water, being greatly overloaded-that she was in meny respects defective, and, as the seaman say, ill. (illegible text)und, and in short very unfit to encounter a gale of wind of any violence. I scorned, however, to
