Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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that were in the binnacle85 were broken with the lightning. < The ship trembled all over under many of the flashes. I was very much afraid that she might be struck with it. > The foresail jib and mainsail86 were blown to atoms with the 5 violence of the winds. {A}t mid- night the wind having chopped round to the Nor'west, the ship was taken aback in a sq sudden squall [and] split the 10 foretop mast staysail.87 {W}hen the wind is from the west or south west, it very often sud- denly changes to the north west and as that is our course 15 we run great danger of found- erring but Providence is good and gracious and will take care of us. {A}bout forty years since seventy two vessels 20 foundered < at one time > from the wind chopping round, just about the same place as we are now.88 I assure you it was very consol- [End of Page 54]
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