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My heart is still with thee.

In thee thou happy Island.
When the summer sun shall shine
Thy beauty might beguile and-
-Warm a colder heart than mine

Though billows beat, around thy feet
With loud and roaring sea;
And I may lovelier countries greet
A dearer cannot be.

Old [Magazine?]

On the 27th the pilot left us, and we kept
on in company with several of the "company's" vessels. The
'[illegible?]', '[[Sir David Scott]]', '[[George the Fourth]]', and "[[Earl of
Balcarras]]", noble names and noble ships, but we shortly
lost sight of all but the [[Sir David Scott]]. As our vessel
carried many guns and had a regular man-of-war's fit
out with small arms, boarding pikes +c, we had plenty of
amusement at practice with the same in case any pirates
[bene?] foolish enough to meddle with, the gun I was stationed
at was numbered 27 on the quarter-deck, and it was good
fun to see us with the boarding pikes when the order was
given to 'repel Boarders' flying about like wild fellows.
Off [[Cape Finnisterre]] a heavy storm of wind and rain came
on we reefed topsails and made all snug, but looking
at our companion the [[Scott]] shortly after saw her main top-
sail yard was carried away, we thought ourselves lucky

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