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“ Here they met with many ships, hat none of
them charitably inclined toAA'ards them, AA'hen it
pleased God they fell in AA'ith ‘ the honest English
barque “ Eawmouth,” ’ which received them on hoard.
While in this vessel they ‘ tooke ’ a Erench ship, into
Avhich Captain de la Barhotier and his seamen
Avere transferred; May himself remaining Avith the
English vessel, Avhioh arrived at Ealmouth in August,
1594.” 1
The next we hear of Bermudas is from an account
by one of her creAv of the Avreck of the ‘ Sea AdA'en-
ture,’ in the year 1609.
The ‘ Sea Adventure ’ Avas one of a small fleet dispatched
from London to'convey the ncAvly-appointed
Governor, Sir Thomas Gates, Admiral Sir George
Somers, and some other officials, to the young colony
of Virginia.
On Monday, July 24th, St. James’s day, when they
reckoned themselves within seven or eight days’ sail
of Cape Henry, “ the clouds began to thicken around,
and a dreadful storm commenced from the northeast,
which, swelling and roaring as it Avere by fits,
at length seemed to extinguish all the light of heaven
and leave utter darkness. The blackness of the sky
and the howling of the winds were such as to inspire
the boldest of our men with terror, for the dread of
death is always more terrible at sea, as no situation
is so entirely destitute of comfort or relief as one of
danger there.”
After seeing St. Elmo’s fires on the rigging, springing
a leak, and undergoing every possible trial, moral
^ ‘ The Naturalist in Bermuda,’ by Jo h n Matthew Jones, Esq., of
the Middle Temple. London, 1859.
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