When the ship had gotten without the breakers, there was no ground within one hundred and fifty fathom, and our people found a large sea rolling in upon them from the south-east.

This was a certain sign that neither land nor shoals were near them in that direction.
So happy a change in the situation of our voyagers was sensibly felt in every breast, and was visible in every countenance.

They had been little less than three months in a state that perpetually threatened them with destruction.

Frequently had they passed their nights at anchor within hearing of the surge, that broke over the shoals and rocks; and they knew, that, if by any accident the anchors should not hold against an almost continual tempest, they must in a few minutes inevitably perish.

They had sailed three hundred and sixty leagues, without once, even for a moment, having a man out of the chains heaving the lead.