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The departure -- The sea -- My companions -- Some account of the wonderful sights we saw on the great deep -- A dreadful storm and a frightful wreck.
It was a bright, beautiful, warm day when our ship spread her canvass to the breeze, and sailed for the regions of the south. Oh, how my heart bounded with delight as I listened to the merry chorus of the sailors, while they hauled at the ropes and got in the anchor! The captain shouted -- the men ran to obey -- the noble ship bent over to the breeze, and the shore gradually faded from my view, while I stood looking on with a kind of feeling that the whole was a delightful dream.