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112 Kirby’s wonderful museum.
found our way with much difficulty.—In those places where
roads or furrows had been made we frequently plunged up
to the neck, and were in great danger of being carried down
by the stream. After wading about three miles through
fields of canes, whose tops could hardly be seen above the
water, we reached the town of St. John’s where we were so
courteously received by Mr. Cann (who keeps the principal
tavern there), that I believe we should have died for want
of food and necessaries, had it not been for the kind offices
of a mulatto tailor, to whom we sent for clothes, and who
carried us to a house where we were furnished with beds and
provisions.
In a few hours afterwards, the wind chopped round to
the South, from which quarter it blew with the same vio-
lence the whole of the 4th and part of the 5th. The hurri-
cane lasted forty-eight hours, during which time it made a
complete sweep of half the compass, beginning at N. and
ending at S. This favourable change saved the ship from
breaking up, and the morning of the 5th, we found her
lying nearly dry, among the rocks, with five large holes in
her larboard side; and wre were enabled to save some of our
linen that was floating in the hold.” *
The extraordinary preservation of this crew, as given
above in the narrator’s own language, corroborates the ob-
servations of the Royal Psalmist—ce They that go down to
the sea in ships—that do business in the great waters-
these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the
deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind,
which lifteth up the waves thereof; they mount up to the
heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is
melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stag-
ger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. Then
they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses. Oh that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the
children of men.”—Psalm 10J.
found our way with much difficulty.—In those places where
roads or furrows had been made we frequently plunged up
to the neck, and were in great danger of being carried down
by the stream. After wading about three miles through
fields of canes, whose tops could hardly be seen above the
water, we reached the town of St. John’s where we were so
courteously received by Mr. Cann (who keeps the principal
tavern there), that I believe we should have died for want
of food and necessaries, had it not been for the kind offices
of a mulatto tailor, to whom we sent for clothes, and who
carried us to a house where we were furnished with beds and
provisions.
In a few hours afterwards, the wind chopped round to
the South, from which quarter it blew with the same vio-
lence the whole of the 4th and part of the 5th. The hurri-
cane lasted forty-eight hours, during which time it made a
complete sweep of half the compass, beginning at N. and
ending at S. This favourable change saved the ship from
breaking up, and the morning of the 5th, we found her
lying nearly dry, among the rocks, with five large holes in
her larboard side; and wre were enabled to save some of our
linen that was floating in the hold.” *
The extraordinary preservation of this crew, as given
above in the narrator’s own language, corroborates the ob-
servations of the Royal Psalmist—ce They that go down to
the sea in ships—that do business in the great waters-
these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the
deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind,
which lifteth up the waves thereof; they mount up to the
heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is
melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stag-
ger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. Then
they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses. Oh that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the
children of men.”—Psalm 10J.