96 A NARROW ESCAPE.

then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further
towards the shore. But neither would this deliver me from the
fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again, and twice
more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before,
the shore being very flat.

The last time of these two had well near been fatal to me; for
the sea having hurried me along as before, landed me, or rather

 

 

  

“7 HELD MY HOLD TILL THE
WAVE ABATED.”

dashed me, against a piece of a
rock, and that with such force, as it
left me senseless, and indeed help-
less, as to my own deliverance:
for the blow taking my side and
breast, beat the breath as it were
quite out of my body, and had it