On Monday, the 23d of November, in the latitude 39:  17 north, and longitude 6:00 W., that day at noon the rock of Lisbon bearing S. by W., distant sixteen leagues; we steer’d E.S.E., to make the rock before night.  At four o’clock it blew a very hard gale, and right on the shore:  The ship lay-to under a foresail, with her head to the southward; at six it blew a storm; the foresail splitting, oblig’d us to keep her before the wind, which was running her right ashore.  The ship was now given over for lost, the people all fell to prayers, and cry’d out to their saints for deliverance, offering all they had in the world for their lives, and yet at the same time neglecting all means to save themselves; they left off pumping the ship, though she was exceeding leaky.  This sort of proceeding in time of extremity is a thing unknown to our English seamen; in those emergencies all hands are employ’d for the preservation of the ship and people, and if any of them fall upon their knees, ’tis after the danger is over.  The carpenter and myself could by no means relish this behaviour; we begg’d the people for God’s sake to go to the pumps, telling them we had a chance to save our lives, while we kept the ship above water, that we ought not to suffer the ship to sink, while we could keep her free.  The captain and officers hearing us pressing them so earnestly, left off prayers, and entreated the men to keep the pumps going, accordingly we went to pumping, and preserv’d ourselves and the ship:  In half an hour afterwards the wind shifted to the W.N.W., then the ship lay south, which would clear the course along shore; had the wind not shifted, we must in an hour’s time have run the ship ashore.  This deliverance, as well as the former, was owing to the intercession of Nuestra Senhora Boa Mortua:  On this occasion they collected fifty moydores more, and made this pious resolution, that when the ship arrived safe at Lisbon, the foresail, which was split in the last gale of wind, should be carried in procession to the church of this grand saint, and the captain should there make an offering equal in value to the foresail, which was reckon’d worth eighteen moydores.

On Saturday, the 28th of November, we arrived at Lisbon, and on the next morning every person who came in the ship, (excepting the carpenter, myself, and the cooper) officers, passengers, the Spanish don himself, and all the people, men and boys, walk’d bare-footed, with the foresail, in procession, to the church of Nuestra Senhora Boa Mortua; the weather at that time being very cold, and the church a good mile distant from the landing-place.  We Englishmen, when we came ashore, went immediately on the Change.  I was pretty well known to some gentlemen of the English factory.  When I inform’d them that we were three of the unfortunate people that were cast away in the Wager, and that we came here in one of the Brazil ships, and wanted to embrace the first opportunity of going for England, they told me, that the lieutenant