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wheel, and fortunately had hold of the taffared, which enabled him to resist in part the weight of wave. he was, however, swept off his feet, and dashed against the main-mast. The jerk from (illegible text) taffarel, which he held very tenaciously, seeming as it would have dislocated his arms: it broke, however the impetus of his motion, and in all probability saved him from being dashed to pieces against the mast.
"I floundered about," says he, "in the water (illegible text)he foot of the mast, till at length I got on my (illegible text), and seized a rope, which I held in a state of that embaressment, dubious what I should do to (illegible text)ricate myself. At this instant I perceived that (illegible text). Hall had got upon the capstern, and was waving his hand to me to follow his example: this I (illegible text)hed to do, though it was an enterprise of some (illegible text) and difficulty; for, if I lost the hold I had, a (illegible text)le motion of the vessel, or a full wave, would (illegible text)ainly carry me overboard, I made a bold push, however, and fortunately accomplished it. Having attained this station, I could the better survey wreck, and saw that the water was nearly breas(illegible text)h on the quarter deck (for the vessel was deep-(illegible text)sted); and I perceived the unfortunate English (illegible text)fer standing where the water was most shallow, (illegible text)f watching with patient expectation its rising, (illegible text) awaiting death: I called to him to come to us, he shook his head in dispair, and said, in a lamentable tone, "It is all over with us! God have mercy upon us!"-then seated himself with seem(illegible text) composure on a chair which happened to be (illegible text)ing about in the wreck of the deck, and in a (illegible text) minutes afterwards was washed into the sea (illegible text) with it, where he was speedily released from (illegible text)ate ten thousand times worse than death.
During this universal wreck of things, the
