h such concern as now. I did also call to
mind the many miraculous acts of God's providence towards me in the
whole course of my life. For all these I returned thanks, and once more
desired God's assistance, and composed my mind as well as I could in the
hopes of it."

These hopes were not disappointed. He and Mr Hall taking it in turns
to steer, while the rest hove out the water, they prepared, as Dampier
writes, "to spend the most doleful night I ever was in. About ten
o'clock it began to thunder, lighten, and rain; but the rain was very
welcome to us, having drank up all the water we brought from the
island."

At first the wind blew harder than ever. In half an hour it moderated,
and by a lighted match they looked at their compass to see how they
steered, and found their course to be still east, and thus they steered
for several hours. For a short time they were able to haul up, but
again had to put before the wind. During this period they were soaked
through and through by the rain, which chilled them extremely. At eight
o'clock on the morning of the 19th one of the Malays exclaimed that he
saw land, and that it was Pulo Way, at the north-west end of Sumatra.

Trimming the smallest amount of sail they could venture to hoist, they
steered with it, their outriggers doing them good service, for the wind
pressed down the boat's side, and would have overturned her had it not
been for them. As they approached the land, they saw that it was not
Pulo Way they had at first observed, but the Golden Mountain in Sumatra,
so-called by the English.

At ten o'clock it fell perfectly calm, and they took to their oars. In
the morning they saw land about eight leagues off. With a fresh breeze,
they steered for the river Jonca, about thirty-four leagues to the
eastward of Achin. Entering it, the Malays, who were well acquainted
with the people, carried them to a small fishing village, where they
found accommodation in a hut.

The scorching heat of the sun at first starting, and subsequent cold and
rain, threw the whole party into fevers. They were kindly treated by
the inhabitants, who brought them abundance of provisions, and they were
conveyed in a large proa to Achin. Here Dampier was placed under the
charge of Mr Driscoll, a resident in the East Indian Company's factory.
A few days afterwards the Portuguese, and subsequently Ambrose, died of
the fever, and Mr Hall was so ill that it appeared unlikely he would
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