The ship was freighted with all possible dispatch, and on the morning of the 18th of May, we embarked, thirty-two in number, comprising the ship’s crew and passengers, of which I was the only female.—Nothing worthy of record transpired on our voyage⚫, until nearly five weeks from the day of our departure, when we experienced a tremendous storm, which continued to rage with unabated fury for six days, and to add to our distress, it was discovered that the ship, from the violent working of the sea, had sprung a leak in several places; both pumps were kept continually going, and were found almost insufficient to free the ship of water. The whole crew began now to turn their eyes upon my husband, who advised the immediate lightening of the ship, as the only measure that could be adopted to preserve our lives—the hatches were torn up, and the ship discharged of the most weighty part of her cargo, but the storm continued to rage, and the leaks increasing, it was soon concluded by the officers utterly impossible to save either the ship or their effects; the preservation of even their lives becoming every moment more difficult to them, they now began to apply every thought and deed to that consideration. Since the commencement of the furious storm, they had not been enabled to keep any reckoning, and had been driven many leagues out of their course.

Such was our perilous situation from the 19th to the 24th June, in the evening of which the storm