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    have been the effect of association ; but never , before nor since , have I been so much delighted and enwrapt by music , as by Captain Jose ' s . We sat on deck , as we glided along the land . I , while listening to him , conjurihg beautiful dreams

    of poetry ' s upper world , as I watched the declining light , and the sun-set tints gilding hill , and rock , and foliage , and ripple ; and the growing depth and denseness of the shadows : till all darkened into night . Still we sat ; he completely absorbed in his musical heaven . There was blowing a good-natured , moderate breeze , and all seemed in perfect security : with not a sign in the dark blue vault that could warn us into caution . But we were

    now nearing a point in the line of coast which I remembered to have been passed with great circumspection by the Catalina , t * $ days previously ; the men were kept at their stations ready to" let fly and clew down : a careful look out was had along the water All this the Captain justified on account of the frequency of sudden gusts which blew down the gorge between two hills just then Whoever is familiar with coasting along the lee-side of the Welt India islands , is aware of this fact : when all around is nothing

    more than a gentle breeze , sufficient to keep the sails asleep , all at once , without a note of warning , on opening one of such gorges sometimes a gust , as furious as if all the winds of heaven were gathered and pent up there , and now burst forth , will come on , howling and roaring , with almost certain destruction , if greal caution be not taken to receive it ; and many dismal instances

    did the captain of the Catalina quote , of dismastings , capsiziags and founderings , just at that spot . Now , on board the Scintilla , danger was unthought of ; and we were gliding bonnily along when I fancied I saw , in shore of us , a white line on the water much like a line of chalk on a dark board : it grew , most suddenly , longer and stronger , and I thought I heard a low , deep

    growl . I rose from my seat , went to windward , and threw my glance , as I stooped , in that-direction , and a drizzling showier brushed against me ; yet there was not the least show of rain-cloud in the sky . Over head , and every where , till the land broke upon the canopy , all was quite clear ; not a rack of cloud , or speck was stirring ; yet the shower came on , increasing in rapidity and mass ; and that white line was broader and rougher . Ha ! I saw

    its meaning , —called to Jose to look ; he did so , —leaped up ,-rthrust his guitar down the companion , —called * luff ! ' —sprang over to the fore-sheet , all simultaneously . It was too late ; the groan sharpened at once into a hissing howl : in an instant all was black , as if a huge carpet had been dropped over us ; and the deluge flew , whizzing , and screaming , and cutting across the deckj as it it were an army of scythes mowing the air . The squaB struck her , and laid her on her beam-ends : I heard a short and fluttering shriek : some one , or more , I . knew not , was thpyffty overboard * All this occurred in one-tenth part of the time I b * f *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/68/