-- Dober's Diary.)
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Wesley. Jan. 29th.
About seven in the evening we fell in with the skirts of a hurricane.
The rain as well as the wind was extremely violent. The sky was so dark
in a moment, that the sailors could not so much as see the ropes,
or set about furling the sails. The ship must, in all probability,
have overset, had not the wind fell as suddenly as it rose.
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Nitschmann. Feb. 10th.
The whole day was stormy, and all night the waves broke over the ship.
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Wesley. Jan. 30th.
We had another storm, which did us no other harm than splitting the foresail.
Our bed being wet, I laid me down on the floor and slept sound till morning.
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Nitschmann. Feb. 12th.
(We were obliged to drift, because we did not know how far we were from land.
About noon we sighted three ships, sailed toward them,
and saw they were English; our sailors lowered the boat, we wrote in haste,
and sent letters to Herrnhut. The ships came from Charlestown,
and told us we were thirty hours' run from Georgia. -- Dober's Diary.)
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Wesley. Feb. 1st, Sunday.
(Three sails appearing, we made up toward them, and got what letters
we could write, in hopes some of them might be bound for England.
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