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over their heads as soon as they heard the report they ran into the woods
and we saw no more of them, the natives are quite naked there we stopped
2 days and 2 nights, the Surf running so very high that we were in great
danger of staving the boat; that night we were drove out to Sea by a
heavy gale of wind & current expecting every moment to go to the
bottom next morning saw no land the Sea running mountains high
we were under close reeft Mainsail and kept so untill night then
came to under a droge all the night with her head to the Sea thinking
every moment to be the last the Sea coming in so heavy upon
us every now and then that two hands were obliged to keep bailing
out it rained very hard all that night the next morning
we took our droge in but could not see any land but hawling towards
the land to make it as soon as possoible the Gale of wind
still continuing we keep on under a close reeft Mainsail but
could not make land all that day _ I will leave you to consider
what distress we must be in the Woman and the two little babies
were in a bad Condition every thing being so wet that we could
by no means light a fire we had nothing to eat except a little
raw Rice at night we came to under a droge as we did the
night before the next morning we took in our droge and
kept to the northward on purpose to make the land about
8 oClock we made the land which proved to be a small
Island about 30 Leagues from the main the Surf running
so very high we were rather fearful of going in for fear of staving
our boat but we concluded amongst ourselves that we might as
well venture in there as to keep out to Sea seeing no probability
but that if we kept out to Sea we should every Soul perish _
All round this Island there was nothing but reefs and a
little

Identifier: | JB/169/203/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	57023
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