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it will, after a year's rest, I prepared for a sixth voyage, notwithstanding the prayers of my kindred and friends, who did all that was possible to prevent me.
Instead of taking my way by the Persian gulph, I travelled once more through several provinces of Persia and the Indies, and arrived at a sea-port, where I embarked on board a ship the captain of which was resolved on a long voyage.
It was very long indeed, but at the same time so unfortunate that the captain and pilot lost their course so as they knew not where they were. They found it at last, but we had no ground to rejoice at it. We were ill seized with extraordinary fear, when we saw the captain quit his post and cry out. He threw of his turban pulled the hair of his beard and beat his head like a mad man. We asked him the reason, and he answered, that he was in the most dangerous place of all the sea. A rapid currunt carries it along with it. and we shall all of us perish in less than a quarter of an hour. Pray to God to deliver us from this danger, we cannot escape it, if he don’t take pity on us. At these words he ordered the sails to be changed.—but all the ropes broke, and the ship, without being possible to help it, was carried by the currunt to the foot of an inaccessible mountain where she ran ashore and broke to pieces, yet (illegible text) as we saved our lives, our provisions, and the boat of our goods.
This being over, the captain says to us, "God ⟨has⟩ ⟨now⟩ ⟨done⟩ what he pleased, we may every (illegible text) dig our grave here, and bid the world adieu for we are in so fatal a place, that none shipwrecked here did ever return to their homes again.” His (illegible text) as mortally, and we embraced one another with tears in our eyes, (illegible text) our deplorable (illegible text).
