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After a moment, Jourdain reported, Somers urged the men on the ship not to give up. He urged them to get back to the pumps and continue bailing. The men, “spent with long fasting and continuance of their labor,” were stretched out “in corners and wheresoever they chanced first to sit or lie,” Jourdain said, “but hearing news of land, wherewith they grew to be somewhat revived. Every man bustled up and gathered his strength and feeble spirits together to perform as much as their weak force would permit him.”18
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Kieran Doherty (Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown)