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    taken to describe it . Luckily , I had laid hold of a main-shroud xm going to look out to windward ; and , as I swung in my grasp , parallel with the deck , which was now a perpendicular , I turned id look to leeward : all was foam . At that moment she risrhted :

    the head-sails had blown away ; yet she shook and trembled as if at her peril * -like a high-mettled steed in a fright ; and I saw a black mass hanging to the leech of the foresail , ( which was gfcretched out like a board , ) over the furiously-boiling sea : a loud tarack followed , — -the sail was split into ribands , and the mass filll heavily into the boat on deck , and immediately leaped out . It was Jose ; all unhurt ! except a bruise as he fell into the

    bo $ t . The squall had spent its fury : all was gentle and clear again ; immediately ; and a voice was heard calling for help . Looking in its direction , a white splashing in the water was discerned the helm was put up , and in ^ a ^ TewTninutes the poor

    fellow , who had been jerked overboard by the sudden lurch , was safely on deck . For a time , the men , —ay , all of us , except Jose , —stood aghast , heedless of his call to unbend the split sails , and jrouse out others from below , to replace them . Soon , however , they forgot their fears , and set to work with as much activity as English or American seamen would evince tinder similar

    circumstances . This crew , living in daily danger of capture , had completely conquered their Spanish indolence . In an hour all Was Snug , and Captain Jose was at his guitar again ; though he called iumself a lubber for not having been on the watch just there , and allowing , the squall to play such pranks with him . Lubber was the first and only word of English he spoke on the passage .

    On awaking next morning , without going on deck to prove the fact , the lazy rolling , on an even keel , and the idle splatting of the water under the counter and stern , gave intimation of a plaguy calm : and I lay in a vexed state of impatience till Jose ' s guitar invited me up from the cabin ; and , looking around , I saw nothing but one lifting , bright , hot , and spotless mirror ; except on the haze-covered rocks and hills , which were too distant to

    refresh the eye . Oh , reader , if you have never experienced the deli g ht of a settled , mute calm at sea , in a small craft , in the torrid zone , when you have also a great anxiety to reach your journey ' s end , you do not know what blisses there are in life . In ? ain do you shift your position of sitting , standing , lying , or reclining at full length , in the fevered hope of lolling or dreaming •* &y your wretchedness : all is in vain ; every attempt and every change does but bring its own infliction , a new sense of misery . You breathe steam , and move in fire . The water , at other times , in the hottest climates , and under a meridian blaze of

    ¦ ° n > yields a refreshing effect , as you look on the busy waves fnd galloping ripples : they seem to fan your spirit with a coolly comfort ; you regard the water itself as a friend , which fwddon * 4 you . Mtittt its gambols . But now , its very face scalds

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    Dallada . 673

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/71/