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On the 8th the wind changed to N.W. and increased . That night , as Nils tried to lay to , she carried away her fore-mast , which had been shaky for days . She was now leaking fast . At noon on the 9th we managed to launch a boat , and abandoned her . She sank at four o'clock : we saw her go down . The weather grew colder , that night . I think it snowed all the time : and the seas were too heavy to let the boat run .