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August 1770    Becalmed off the Reef

no man I beleive but who gave himself intirely over  a speedy death was all we had to hope for & that from the vastness of the Breakers which must quickly dash the ship all to peices was scarce to be doubted  other hopes we had none  the boats were in the ship & must be dashd in peices with her & the nearest dry land was 8 or 10 Leagues distant   we did not however cease our endeavours to get out the long boat which was by this time almost accomplishd   at this critical juncture  at this I must say terrible moment  when all asistance seemd too little to save even our miserable lives  a small air of wind sprang up  so small that at any other time in a calm we should not have observd it  we however plainly saw that it instantly checkd our progress  every sail was therefore put in a proper direction to catch it & we just obsevd the ship to move in a slaunting direction off from the breakers  this at least gave us time & redoubling our efforts we at last got out the long boat & manning her sent her a head  the ship still movd a little off but in less than 10 minutes our little Breeze

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