After this I went on board; but the first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cook-room, or forecastle of the ship, with their arms fast about one another.

I concluded, as is indeed probable, that when the ship struck, it being in a storm, the sea broke so high and so continually over her, that the men were not able to bear it, and were strangled with the constant rushing in of the water, as much as if they had been under water.

Besides the dog, there was nothing left in the ship that had life; nor any goods, that I could see, but what were spoiled by the water.

There were some casks of liquor, whether wine or brandy I knew not, which lay lower in the hold, and which, the water being ebbed out, I could see; but they were too big to meddle with.

I saw several chests, which I believe belonged to some of the seamen; and I got two of them into the boat, without examining what was in them.