Suddenly, a shot rang out and someone screamed.

Blessed art thou in the holie temple of thie glorie, and superpraised and superglorious for euer.

We had hauled up here to the S.W., in order to go sharp round the southern extreme of the Maldiva Archipelago, and, if possible, proceed by the northern, or short route, and run our westing down in 4° or 5° south latitude ; but, as we got to the westward, we found the wind more dead against us, so that we were obliged to steer south again.

[…] but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.