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    upon deck telling him thaJ We was afraid we was too near the land , he

    said to . us not to fear , he knew how lo carry us to our own country better than any tody , and constantly kept his own ways , and " not mind what the people say to

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    stove all to pieces . He was about a mile from us upon th * s edge of the reef . About foyr o ' clock we put off from the wreck , praying to God to send us safe on a-shore which none of us drd ever expect

    him till he knew not what he was about . But to proceed . Unluckily for us , half past , 11 o ' cjock , the ship struck upon a reef of

    to reach again , and " when we-gdt over the reef , with tire utmost diffipulty * the shallop havingstruck and 'filleftl two br three times , we rowed up as near as possible to the man that was on the rock ,

    from which hc _ swam to us and be was taken aboard . We then macle the best of our way a . shore , and to the great satisfaction of us all about 10 o ' clock we all got safe ashore when we immediately ' give

    thahks to Almighty God for preserving us in so many hrfmilidnt dangers , to . which \ ve was exposed all the night , w

    Now this is all of any . consequence that % ve can remcfftber since we left Bristol , What happened before you have ato account of in the affidavit that you have got already . I doubt not but > ydu

    will place this in a mote proper manner * We beg leave tcr . salute Mrs ^ Weslpy , Mr ^ SaW y * plaster Charles , Master Samuel and $ . 11 your family , to whome we wish every' happiness ; and are Dr » Revd . Sir

    Your most obedt . c humble servant Ancona 'Robin Robin John . . ¦ ? ^ Letter II < from Lit He Bphraim Hobin ' John *

    ^ . We was rtow Jo greatest comfort p hore , but a shocking scene before tis r no bread nor ' victu als t ) f any kind . We was in £ read was starvt ' d to death not thinking

    rocks and Us impossible to describe the shocking sights that presented its self to the chief mate . and the other that was

    below asleep and thinking the ship going on course and everything safe . The shi p had not struck above ten minutes" before the sea carried away her main-mast about half w £ y up , and fore-mast and bowsprit close to the deck , so that

    we had no convenience for gettiffg out our boats but the stump of the Maria ' s mast , xvith the helps of which we got out the small ^ a \\ l , into which ouV black man named Joe got , for to keep her "from being daslied to pieces against the rocks and the wreck-, but tinliicluly for him , the rope that < was fast to the bdat'broke ' sfod she

    drove awfty % vith him * fall of water , and we could not see any thing of him till day-light * . We then got all to work to get out the other boat which , with a great deal of labdur , by the help of God , at last we accomplished , antl then persuaded Captain to

    get into the boat , which we mil did , half in one bolat and half in the other and stayed tinder the lee ^ of the wreck till d&y-light , in a itiost miseriable situation , the sea making a fair passage over the wreck Into our boats *

    At day-light in the morning , to our great surprise , we saw the black man Joe , standing upon a

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    354 Narrative of a Voyage and Shipwreck

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/2/