'At day-break I served to every person a teaspoonful of rum, our limbs being so much cramped that we could scarcely move them.

Our situation was now extremely dangerous, the sea frequently running over our stern, which kept us baling with all our strength.

At noon the sun appeared, which gave us as much pleasure as is felt when it shows itself on a winter's day in England.
'In the evening of the 12th it still rained hard, and we again experienced a dreadful night.

At length the day came, and showed a miserable set of beings, full of wants, without any thing to relieve them.

Some complained of great pain in their bowels, and every one of having almost lost the use of his limbs.