Recollections of the Revolution And the Empire : From the French of the "journal D'une Femme De Cinquante Ans."
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We encountered an English vessel coming from Ireland and our cap- tain went on board and returned with a bag of potatoes and two small pots of butter for myself and children. Having compared his position with that of the English captain, he found that we were fifty leagues to the north of the Azores. On learning this, my husband prayed him to put us on the shore of the Azores, from which we might have been able to gain England, but the captain was unwilling to do so. Ten days followed in which ...we were unable to take an observation, and the fog was so dense that even upon our little boat we could not see the bowsprit. The captain did not know where he was. Old Harper assured us that he felt land breezes, but we thought that he was endeavoring to. cheer us up. Finally, the twelfth of May, 1794, at daybreak, as the weather was warm and the sea calm, we were on deck with the children to breathe the fresh air. The fog was still very dense, and the captain declared that the [181] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION land was still at a distance of at least fifty or sixty leagues.
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