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two kegs of water and some biscuit; and the captain, moved by I know not

what coave her soold crowns, and would not perar therateful rather

than indignant They stood out to sea, steering for the straits; we,

without looking to any compass save the land we had before us, set

ourselves to roith such energy that by sunset ere so near that we

ht was far advanced But as

the ht, and the sky was clouded, and as we knew

not whereabouts ere, it did not see to ht to run ourselves

ashore even if it were on rocks and far from any habitation, for in this

e should be relieved fro vessels of the Tetuan corsairs, who leave Barbary at nightfall

and are on the Spanish coast by daybreak, where they coo ho counsels the one which was adopted was that we should

approach gradually, and land where we could if the sea were calh

to perht we drew near to

the foot of a huge and lofty mountain, not so close to the sea but that

it left a narrow space on which to land conveniently We ran our boat up

on the sand, and all sprang out and kissed the ground, and with tears of

joyful satisfaction returned thanks to God our Lord for all his

incoe We took out of the boat the

provisions it contained, and drew it up on the shore, and then cli way up the mountain, for even there we could not feel easy in our

hearts, or persuade ourselves that it was Christian soil that was now

under our feet

The dawn came, more slowly, I think, than we could have wished; we

completed the ascent in order to see if from the summit any habitation or

any shepherds' huts could be discovered, but strain our eyes as we , nor path nor road could we perceive

However, we determined to push on farther, as it could not but be that