began to abate—the morning ensuing, although the sea had become much more calm, there was so thick a fog, that the ship’s crew found it impossible to discern an object three miles a-head of them, and to add to our consternation, by the colour of the water it was discovered that we were on soundings, while the breakers were distinctly heard at the leeward⚫—the storm had rendered the ship unmanageable, and she was considered so completely a wreck, that tho officers thought it their wisest plan to put her before the wind, until they could discover the land, (which they imagined not far off) and then attempt the gaining the shore with the boats—but, the day closed without any discovery of land being made, although the roar of the surf indicated that it could not be far distant. The ship’s crew, nearly worn down with fatigue, as many of them as could be spared off deck now sought a little necessary repose below; but, about midnight, they were suddenly aroused from their slumbers from the violent striking of the ship against a chain of rocks, and with so much violence as to open her stern! Even the little hope that the ship’s crew had till then preserved seemed to fail them at once—on the instant the ship resounded with their lamentable exclamations imploring the mercy of their Creator! indeed to form an adequate idea of our distress, one must have been a witness of it. The reader cannot suppose but that I too in a moment like this, must have shared the terrors of the crew; but my fortitude, by the bless