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William Dampier

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

William Dampier

Morning

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On the morning of August 6th, they found a gap in the coastline and quickly sailed into it. They then dropped anchor in water that was seven and a half fathoms deep, about two miles from the shore, where the seabed was made of clean sand.

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