coast of Suffolk; and the ship being in the
utmost distress, they ran for the shore at all hazards, and with great
difficulty got into Harwich, where they were safe, as to the danger of
death; but the ship was so full of water and so much damaged that if
they had not laid her on shore the same day she would have sunk before
night, according to the opinion of the seamen, and of the workmen on
shore too who were hired to assist them in stopping their leaks.

Amy was revived as soon as she heard they had espied land, and went out
upon the deck; but she soon came in again to me. "Oh, madam!" says she,
"there's the land indeed to be seen. It looks like a ridge of clouds,
and may be all a cloud for aught I know; but if it be land, 'tis a
great way off, and the sea is in such a combustion, we shall all perish
before we can reach it. 'Tis the dreadfullest sight to look at the
waves that ever was seen. Why, they are as high as mountains; we shall
certainly be all swallowed up, for all the land is so near."

I had conceived some hope that, if they saw land, we should be
delivered; and I told her she did not understand things of that nature;
that she might be sure if they saw land they would go directly towards
it, and would make into some harbour; but it was, as Amy said, a
frightful distance to it. The land looked like clouds, and the sea went
as high as mountains, so that no hope appeared in the seeing the land,
but we were in fear of foundering before we could reach it. This made
Amy so desponding still; but as the wind, which blew from the east, or
that way, drove us furiously towards the land, so when, about
half-an-hour after, I stepped to the steerage-door and looked out, I saw
the land much nearer than Amy represented it; so I went in and
encouraged Amy again, and indeed was encouraged myself.

In about an hour, or something more, we saw, to our infinite
satisfaction, the open harbour of Harwich, and the vessel standing
directly towards it, and in a few minutes more the ship was in smooth
water, to our inexpressible comfort; and thus I had, though against my
will and contrary to my true interest, what I wished for, to be driven
away to England, though it was by a storm.

Nor did this incident do either Amy or me much service, for, the danger
being over, the fears of death vanished with it; ay, and our fear of
what was beyond death also. Our sense of the life we had lived went off,
and with our return to life our wicked