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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53252	Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy appearing in the miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, Williams Adams [brace] John Anthony, John Jephs, John ----, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... / by me William Okeley.	Okeley, William.; Deane, James.	1684 (1684)	Wing O193; ESTC R41361	62,607	143

us that in Greenland the extremity of Cold will make the Iron stick to the Fingers as our Experience assures extremity of Heat will do for now like Distracted Persons we all leapt into the Sea quitting our Boat and being all good Swimmers we there Bathed and cooled our heated Bodies An Adventure which if well considered had as much of the Desperado in it as our putting to Sea For now we were at the Mercy of the Sharks which might have sheared off a Leg or Arm and now our over-heated Bodies were open to receive the Impressions of that Cold Element But as we never considered our Danger the great and good God delivered us from the Ordinary effects of such Folly we presently returned to our Boat and being both wearied with Labour and cooled a little with the Sea we lay us all down to Sleep in as much security as if we had been in our own Beds Nature being almost spent must have a Truce she will not undertake to keep our Bodies upon their Legs if we will not submit to her great standing Ordinance of Rest and here we saw still more of Divine Goodness that our Leaky Vessel did not bury us in the Sea and we awaking find our selves in the other World But he that gave us Sleep measured it and he measured it exactly not suffering us to out-sleep the Season of plying our Pump or that which supplyed the place of it Being thus refresh'd with sleep we found new strength for our Work and God found us new Work for our strength We tugged the harder at the Oar because we hoped e'er Night to sleep upon a more stable and faithful Element But we made our way very slowly and when we cast up the Account of our Progress found that we had gone but little way in a long time towards Evening we discovered another Island The first we saw was Mayork the second Fromentere and some of our Company that had Sailed in these Seas would undertake to assure us of it We debated not long to which of these we should direct our Course for the latter being much infested with venemous Serpents and little if at all Inhabited we resolved all for Mayork All that Night we Rowed very hard and the next being the sixth of July and from our putting to Sea we kept within sight of it all Day and about Ten a Clock at Night we came under the Island but the Rocks were there so craggy and steep that we could not climb up Whilst we were under these Rocks there came a Vessel very near us Let the Reader put himself in our stead let him but Copy out our Thoughts let him imagine how loth we were to lose all our toil and Travel to forego our Deliverance to have this Rich Mercy which God had put into our Hands wrested out of them again by some Turkish Pickaroon or Corsair that are alwayes skimming those Seas It concerned us therefore to lye close and when they were passed by we gently crept along the Coast as near the shoar as we durst till we found a convenient place where we might thrust in our Weather-beaten Boat If these Papers should fall into the hands of some that are great Clerks in the Art of Navigation and have conn'd the Mariners Terms of Art they will smile at my improper wording of these Maters and say I am one of Paul's Mariners But I can be content to be Accounted one of his Mariners whilst I have shared in his Mercies How many of those that spake the Language of the Sea yet have found her Billows deaf to their Cries and Prayers and their stately Ships made the Scorn of Winds and the Reproach of Waves when we who had none of their Ships and little of their skill have had Experience of those Providences to which rhey have been Strangers SECT XII The great kindness we received at Mayork from the Vice-Roy and the Inhabitants of that Island and City WHen we were come to Land we were not unsensible of our Deliverance though like Men newly awakened out of a Dream we had not the true Dimensions of it We confessed God had done great things for us but how great things he had done was beyond our Comprehension We had escaped the Sea but yet Death might be found at Land and we were ready to say with Sampson Judg. 15. 18. Lord thou hast given this great Deliverance into the hands of thy Servants and now shall we dye for Thirst We had had no Food since we eat the Liver and drank the Blood of the Tortoise and therefore leaving three of our Company with the Boat the other too viz. John Anthony and my self were sent out to scout abroad for fresh Water And the rather were we sent because this John Anthony could speak both the Spanish and Italian Tongues very perfectly and I had as much of the Spanish as might serve to express our wants and desires if perhaps we might meet with any persons there abouts We were not far gone before we fell into a Wood and we were in a Wilderness in our thoughts which way to take He will needs go his way and I mine Good Lord what a frail impotent thing is Man That they whom common dangers by Sea common Deliverances from Sea had United should now about our own wills fall out at Land And yet thus we did He gave me reproachful words and it 's well we came not to blows But I went my own way and he seeing me resolute followed me and the Providence of God not dealing with us according to our frowardness followed us both This way led us to a Watch-Tower of the Spaniards many of which they keep upon the Sea-Coasts to give the Countrey timely notice of any Pickaroons that come ashoar to Rob and Spoyl When we came within call fearing he might Discharge at us we spoke to him upon the Watch told him our Condition what we were whence we came how we escaped and earnestly begged of him to direct us to some fresh Water and in the mean time to bestow upon us some Bread He very kindly threw us down an old mouldy Cake but so long as it was a Cake and not a stone nor a Bullet Hunger did not consider it's Mouldiness Then he directed us to fresh Water which was hard by We stood not telling Stories we remembred our selves we remembred our Brethren left with our Boat and observing the Sentinels Directions came to a Well where there was a Pot with strings to draw with We drank a little Water and eat a bit of our Cake but the passage was so dis-used that we had much ado to force our Throats to relieve our clamourous stomachs But here we staid not but with the four Lepers in the Tents of the Syrians 2 Kings 7. 9. Rebuked our selves We do not well we have glad Tidings to carry and do we hold our peace We return to our Boat are welcomed by our Companions acquaint them

was not to be slighted But how such a little Skiff rather than Boat should be able to Weather all the Accidents of the Sea was a Neck Question enough to strangle Faith and stifle with us with Despair To these Objections I Answered That I had designed my own Cellar as the meetest place wherein to build the Boat that when it was there Built it might be taken in pieces again and carried out of the City in parcels and bestowed in private places till things were ripe for Execution That for a place where to put to Sea it ●ould be time enough to determine upon that when we had finish'd our Vessel That Mayork was the most commodious place to design to Land in But in general I told them to this purpose That if we never attempted any thing till we had Answered all Objections we must sit with our Fingers in our Mouths all our days and pine and languish out our tedious Lives in Bondage Let us be up and doing and God would be with us To begin is one half of our work Let us make an Essay and Answer particular Objections as they Offer'd themselves and as we met with them in our work That the Project had its difficulties was confessed but what has not that is Commendable and Glorious Yet whatever difficulties dangers we could meet with Liberty kept in our Eye would sweeten the dangers we might encounter in Attempting They were all well sati●fied with what was said and all engaged to venture the utmost they were and had to accomplish it SECT IX The Model of the Boat Carrying it out of the City and bestowing it in convenient Places IN the Cellar where we had Worship'd God we began our Work and it was not the Holiness but the Privacy of the place that invited us and advised us to it And first we provided a piece of Timber about twelve Foot long to make the Keel But because it was impossible to convey a piece of Timber of that length out of the City but it must be seen and of that shape but it must be suspected and that Suspition would bring us into Examination and the Rack or Battoon might extort a Confession out of the mo●t resolved and obstinate breast we therefore cut it in two pieces and fitted it for Joynting thus in the middle Our next care was the Timbers or Ribs of the Poat which we contrived thus every one of the Timbers was made of three pieces and joynted in two places because a whole Rib at its full length would be lyable to the same inconveniences with the Keel Now understand that the joynts of the Ribs were not made with Mortice and Tenon but the flat side of one of the three Pieces was laid over the other and two holes were bored at every joynt into which two Nails were to be put when we should joyn the parcels of our Boat together You must understand further that these two holes at every joynt were not made in a strait line parallel with the sides of the pieces for then the three pieces which make one Rib being joyned together would have made one strait piece a Form which would by no means comport with the Use and Design of the Timbers But so that when both the Nails were in the holes each Joynt would make an obtuse angle and so incline so near towards a Semi-Circular Figure as our Occasion required All this while here is no visible Provision made for boards to cloath the naked Ribs of our Boat without which the Keel and Timbers looked but like an useless Anatomy but neither had we nor was it possible we should have any boards in our Vessel Necessity is the best Artificer when all is done if we accept her Sister Contingency to which two the World has been beholden for the most useful inventions which at this day do ease the Labour and Toyl of wearied Mankind For the Joynting of these Boards and the Nailing of them to make the Boat Water-tite would require such Hammering and that Hammering would make such a clamarou● Echo in the Cellar as must have drawn upon us the Jealous Eyes of the Algerines who about their Wives and Slaves are insupportably suspicious And therefore from the first Conception of the Design I always resolved upon a Canvas In pursuance of which thought being all satisfied that it was practicable we bought as much strong Canvas as would cover our Boat twice over upon the Convex of the Carine We provided also as much Pitch Tar and Tallow as would serve to make it a kind of a Tawparlin Sear-cloth to swaddle the naked body of our Infant-Boat With Earthen pots to melt done our Materials in and prefixt a night wherein we might Execute that part of our Labour The two Carpenters and my self were appointed to this Service and the Cellar was the place where we met Matters had hitherto run very evenly and smoothly but here we met with some discouraging rubs For when we had stopt all the Chinks and Crannies of the Cellar that the streame of the melted Materials might not creep out and betray us there being no Chimney we had not been long at our work before I felt my self exceeding sick with the strong and unusual scent of the melted Liquor I was forced to go out into the streets to gasp for breath where meeting with the cool Air it over-came me I swooned fell down brake my face and there lay My Companions missing me made out to seek me found me in this sad plight and carried me in again though exceeding sick and unserviceable They had not proceeded much further before I heard one of them complain he was sick and cou'd proceed no further and now our work stood still I plainly saw that our hopeful Project that had hitherto so smoothly proceeded must needs miscarry and Prove Abortive for it would be impossible to finish it this night and if we once parted and suffered our Spirits to cool over the Design they would never cease cooling till they were stone-cold and hard frozen and therefore I advised to set open the Door and commit our selves and our work to Gods Protection For I told them they could not but know that if any Discovery were made the burden would fall heaviest upon my shoulders and my Back or Feet must pay for all At length we resolved to set the Cellar-door wide open and as soon as that was done and the stream pretty well gone out we came to our selves again couragiously went on with our business and pitched one half that Night The next night we met again set open the Door and whilst they plyed the work I stood Sentinel at the Door to give Notice of approaching danger but we happily finish'd the whole and while it was yet dark carried it to my Shop which was about a Furlong from the Cellar and there at present secured it I shall not question the Readers Ingenuity so much but that he will