Adol. She got to Shoar the first of them all.

Ant. How could she do that?

Adol. We set her upon a broad Plank, and ty’d her on so fast that she could not easily fall off, and we gave her a Board in her Hand to make Use of instead of an Oar, and wishing her good Success, we set her afloat, thrusting her off from the Ship with Poles, that she might be clear of it, whence was the greatest Danger.  And she held her Child in her left Hand, and row’d with her right Hand.

Ant. O Virago!

Adol. Now when there was nothing else left, one pull’d up a wooden Image of the Virgin Mary, rotten, and rat-eaten, and embracing it in his Arms, try’d to swim upon it.

Ant. Did the Boat get safe to Land?

Adol. None perish’d sooner than they that were in that, and there were above thirty that had got into it.

Ant. By what bad Accident was that brought about?

Adol. It was overset by the rolling of the Ship, before they could get clear of it.

Ant. A sad Accident:  But how then?

Adol. While I was taking Care for others, I had like to have been lost myself.

Ant. How so?

Adol. Because there was nothing left that was fit for swimming.

Ant. There Corks would have been of good Use.

Adol. In that Condition I would rather have had a sorry Cork than a gold Candlestick.  I look’d round about me, at Length I bethought myself of the Stump of the Mast, and because I could not get it out alone, I took a Partner; upon this we both plac’d ourselves, and committed ourselves to the Sea.  I held the right End, and my Companion the left End.  While we lay tumbling and tossing, the old preaching Sea-Priest threw himself upon our Shoulders.  He was a huge Fellow.  We cry out, who’s that third Person?  He’ll drown us all.  But he very calmly bids us be easy, for there was Room enough, God will be with us.

Ant. How came he to be so late?

Adol. He was to have been in the Boat with the Dominican.  For they all paid him this Deference.  But tho’ they had confess’d themselves in the Ship, yet having forgotten I know not what Circumstances, they confess’d over again at the Ship-Side, and each lays his Hand upon the other, and while this was doing the Boat was over-turn’d.  This I had from Adam himself.

Ant. What became of the Dominican?

Adol. As the same Man told me, having implor’d the Help of his Saints, and stript himself, he threw himself naked into the Sea.

Ant. What Saints did he call upon?

Adol. St. Dominick, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, and one of the Peters, but I can’t tell which:  But his chief Reliance was upon Catherinea Senensis.

Ant. Did he not remember Christ?