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on board saved our lives -- for we thought ourselves far enough (from our Course) at Sea -- At Sunsetting, he told the Captain it had been an invariable practice with him at Sunset, to send a man to the mast head -- and said he did not like the looks of the Water -- A man was sent, but before he got half way up, he discovered Breakers eight a head, and nearly round us -- we sounded & had but seven Fathom -- another Quarter of an hours run, we should have been on the Shoals, & must inevitably have perished -- for a heavy South South East Gale arose at the very period, with a mountainous swell -- we were cooped up -- we could not hold on our Course, & we attempted in vain to weather the Shoals, being far inside them -- we were obliged to lay the unclear lead the other way, and then she lay up but West South West, nearly on the land -- owing to the heavy sea which beat her off -- Every prospect of Safety was lost, & our only hopes were that we might be enabled to keep the