On the day we were picked up the schooner was off Cape St.Roque, in longitude thirty-one degrees west; so that, when found, we had drifted probably, from north to south, _not less than five-and-twenty degrees!_ On board the Jane Guy we were treated with all the kindness our distressed situation demanded.

In about a fortnight, during which time we continued steering to the southeast, with gentle breezes and fine weather, both Peters and myself recovered entirely from the effects of our late privation and dreadful sufferings, and we began to remember what had passed rather as a frightful dream from which we had been happily awakened, than as events which had taken place in sober and naked reality.

I have since found that this species of partial oblivion is usually brought about by sudden transition, whether from joy to sorrow or from sorrow to joy--the degree of forgetfulness being proportioned to the degree of difference in the exchange.

Thus, in my own case, I now feel it impossible to realize the full extent of the misery which I endured during the days spent upon the hulk.

The incidents are remembered, but not the feelings which the incidents elicited at the time of their occurrence.