A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 9 - By Robert Kerr












































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immediately caused our fore-courses to be made ready to float our ship
about after the Unicorn, though we - Page 786
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I Immediately Caused Our Fore-Courses To Be Made Ready To Float Our Ship About After The Unicorn, Though We Had Little Hope Of Being Able To Assist Her In Any Thing, As The Sea Was Become Very Rough.

While our men were throwing loose the forecourse, there came so violent a gust, that they were obliged to

Furl it again, otherwise it had been blown away. After the gust was over, we set our foresail, and, to make her wear better round, we brailed up our main-course, part of it being blown out of the bolt rope before the men could furl it. After that was up, we put our helm hard a-weather, thinking the ship would come round, but all in vain, for our ship would not wear beyond two or three points, and then came to again. The sea was now so much grown that we durst not let fall our spritsail, and the wind so violent that we could not loosen our fore-topsail; and by this time the Unicorn had gone out of sight.[280] Finding we could not wear ship, we steered away as near as we could lie S. by E. till noon, having by that time made a course S. by E. thirteen leagues from the southermost island we had seen over night, which I called the Morocco Saddle, or Saddle island, because of a high hill having a deep swamp or hollow between two peaked tops. This Saddle island is in lat.

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