. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... gained sight of the peak of Teneriffe, and thenext day took a Spanish bark of twenty-five tons. On the 25thof September passed the tropic, when about sixty of the crew, who 90 OPTAIN UOODES ROGERS. had never been tliis course before, were ducked three times,by hoisting tlicin u|) halfway the main-yard, with a rope to whichthey were made fast, and sousing
. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... gained sight of the peak of Teneriffe, and thenext day took a Spanish bark of twenty-five tons. On the 25thof September passed the tropic, when about sixty of the crew, who 90 OPTAIN UOODES ROGERS. had never been tliis course before, were ducked three times,by hoisting tlicin u|) halfway the main-yard, with a rope to whichthey were made fast, and sousing them into the water. Aftervisitin-i the Cape de \erd islands, where they took in water andprovisfons, tl»e sliips again set sail on the 8th of October, in theevening. On the 14th, they came within sight of Brazil, and soonafter cmne to anchor before the island of Grande, in eleven fath-oms water. While tiiey lay here another quarrel arose on boardthe Duchess, and eight of the ringleaders were put in irons. Onthe 2oth, two men deserted and made their escape into the woods;but, in the night, were so terrilied by the noise made by the baboonsand monkeys, that they ran back, plunged into the water, and pray-«d to be taken on board again. Peak 01 Teneriffe. The ships sailed out of the bay of Grande on the first of December, steering for .Juan Fernandez, and on the 5th of January,encountered a violent storm, which drove such a quantity ofwater into the Duchess, that they expected she would sink everymoment. As the men were going to supper about nine oclockat niglit, she shipped a sea at the poop, which boat in the bulk-head and all the cabin windows. On deck the yawl was staved inpieces and one or two of tne men severely hurt. On the 17th,took an observation, by which they found they had got roundCape Horn and were to the northward of Cape Victoria. Aboutthis time the scurvy began to make great havoc among the now bore away for the island of Juan Fernandez, whichappeared
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