Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
816 EUMBERLAND’S VOYAGE TO THE AZORES.
Herewith our main fail was tore from the yard, and blown overboard quite away into
the fea, without recovery, and our other fails fo rent and torn (from fide to fide, fome
of them) that hardly any of them efcaped whole. The raging waves and foaming furges
of the fea, came rolling like mountains one after another, and overraked the wafte of
the fhip like a mighty river running over it, whereas in fair weather it was near twenty
feet above the water, that now we might cry out with the princely prophet, Pfalm
107, v. xxvi. ‘* They mount up to heaven, and defcend to the deep, fo that their foul
melteth away for trouble: they reel to and fro, and ftagger like a drunken man, and
all their cunning is gone.”” With this extremity of foul weather, the fhip was fo toffed
and fhaken, that by the cracking noife it made, and by the leaking which was now
much more than ordinary, we were in great fear it would have fhaken in funder, fo
that now alfo we had juft caufe to pray a little otherwife than the poet, though marring
the verfe, yet mending the meaning.
Deus maris ct cali, quid enim nifi vota fuperfunt
Solvere, quafjata parcito membra ratis.
Notwithftanding it pleafed God, of his great goodnefs, to deliver us out of this dan-
ger. Then forthwith a new main fail was made and faftened to the yard, and the reft
repaired as time and place would fuffer, which we had no fooner done, but yet again we
were troubled with as great extremity as before, fo that again we were like to have
loft our new main fail, had not mafter William Antony, the matter of the fhip, him-
felf, (when none elfe would or durft) ventured, with danger of drowning, by creeping
along upon the main yard (which was let down clofe to the rails) to gather it up out
of the fea, and to faften it thereto, being in the mean while oft-times ducked over head
and ears into. the fea.
Thefe ftorms were fo terrible, that there were fome in our company, which confeffed
that they had gone to fea for the fpace of twenty years, and had never feen the like,
and vowed that if ever they returned fafe home, they would never come to fea
again.
oT he laft of November at night, we met with an Englifh fhip, out of which (becaufe it
was too late at night) it was agreed that we fhould have had the next morning, two or
three tons of wine, which, as they faid, was all the provifion of drink they had, fave
only a butt or two which they muft needs referve for their own ufe: but after that, we
heard of them no more, till they were fet upon ground on the coaft of Ireland, where it
appeared that they might have fpared us much more than they pretended they could,
fo as they might well have relieved our great neceflities, and have had fufficient for them-
felves befides, to bring them into England.
The firft of December at night, we fpake with another Englifh fhip, and had fome
beer out of her, but not fuflicient to carry us into England, fo that we were conttrained
to put into Ireland, the wind fo ferving.
The next day we came to an anchor, not far from the St. Kelmes, under the land
and wind, where we were fomewhat more quiet, but (that being no fafe harbour to
ride in) the next morning we went about to weigh anchor, but having fome of our men
hurt at the capften, we were fain to give over, and leave it behind, holding on our
courfe to Ventre haven, where we fafely arrived the fame day, that place being a very
fafe and convenient harbour for us, that now we might fing, as we had juit cawe,
“¢ they that go down to the fea, &c.”
13 Se
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
