I found it a large hole about a foot diameter; you will naturally suppose this circumstance gives me infinite pleasure, when I inform you that this noble vessel was preserved, with all its crew, by a most fortunate thought! in short, I sat down over it, and could have dispensed with it had it been larger; nor will you be surprised when I inform you I am descended from Dutch parents.

[The Baron's ancestors have but lately settled there; in another part of his adventures he boasts of royal blood.] My situation, while I sat there, was rather cool, but the carpenter's art soon relieved me..