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C H A P . I.
T h e arrival o f th e Centurion a t th e Iflancf o f Juan?
Fernandes, w ith a de fcription o f th a t Ifland.
ON the 9th o f June, at" day-break, as- is mentioned in the-
preceding chapter,. we firft deferied the Ifland o f Juan
Fernandes, bearing N . by E. | E , at eleven or twelve-
leagues diftance. And though, on this firft view, it appeared to-
be a very mountainous place, extremely ragged and irregular-; yet,,
as it was land, and the land we fought-for, it. was to us a moil-
agreeable fight n becaufe at this place only we could hope to put a.
period to thofe terrible calamities we had lo long' ftruggled with,,
which had already fwept away above half our cr ewand which,
had we continued a few days longer at fea, would inevitably have
completed our deftruftion. For we were,, by this time, reduced*!
to fo helplefs a condition, that, out o f two hundred and odd men.
which remained alive, , we.could not, taking all our watchesutoge---
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