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Becalmed off the Reef.

died away into as flat a calm as ever  now was our anziety again renewd   innumerable small peices of paper &c were thrown over the ships side to find whither the boat realy movd her a head or not & so little did she move that it remaind almost every other time a matter of dispute  our little freindly Breeze now visited us again & lasted about as long as before  thrusting us possibly 100 yards farther from the breakers  we were still however in the very jaws of destruction  a small opening had been seen in the reef about a furlong from us  its breadth was scarce the lengh of the ship  into this however it was resolvd to push her if posible   within was no surf  therefore we might save our lives  the doubt was only whether we could get the ship so far  our little breeze however a third time visited us & pushd us almost there  the fear of Death is Bitter  the prospect we now had before us of saving our lives tho at the expence of every thing we had made my heart set much lighter on its throne & I suppose there were none but what felt the same sensations  at lengh we arrivd off the mouth

 

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