Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck On Board the Lady Castlereagh; And a Description of New South Wales
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We were rent from ouranchors, and with all our enormous load were whirled swift as an arrowalong the vast abyss. Now we climb the rolling mountains, we ploughthe frightful ridge, and seem to skim the skies; anon we plunge intothe opening gulf, we reel to and fro, and stagger in the jarringdecks, or climb the cordage, whilst bursting seas foam over the decks. Despair is in every face, and death sits threatening in every surge. "The whistling of the wind and roaring of the sea, together with thev...oice of despairing seamen, and the dreadful shrieks of the women, made us truly miserable; but we were forced to exert ourselves withassumed courage and vigour, which could only be imagined but by thoseplaced in a similar situation, --our exertions were for life or death, knowing that if they once failed, that nothing was to be expected butto perish in a watery grave. We kept the water under to about three feet during the time of thisdreadful gale; about 4 P. M. It abated, and about 5 P. M. It blew asteady breeze from the south-west; and at 6 P.
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