I found no effect from all I could

I found no effect from all I could do, but plainly perceived my closet to be
moved along; and in the space of an hour or better, that side of the box where the
staples were and had no window struck against something that was hard. I
apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever. I plainly
heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it
as it passed through the ring. I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least
three feet higher than I was before. Whereupon I again thrust up my stick and
handkerchief, calling for help till I was almost hoarse. In return to which I heard a
great shout repeated three times, giving me such transports of joy as are not to be
conceived but by those who feel them. I now heard a trampling over my head, and
somebody calling through the hole with a loud voice in the English tongue. "If
there be anybody below, let them speak." I answered I was an Englishman, drawn
by ill fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and
begged by all that was moving to be delivered out of the dungeon I was in. The
voice replied I was safe, for my box was fastened to their ship; and the carpenter
should immediately come and saw a hole in the cover, large enough to pull me
out. I answered that was needless, and would take up too much time, for there
was no more to be done, but let one of the crew put his finger into the ring, and
take the box out of the sea into the ship, and so into the captain's cabin. Some of
them upon hearing me talk so wildly thought I was mad; others laughed; for
indeed it never came into my head that I was now got among people of my own
stature and strength. The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a passage
about four feet square, then let down a small ladder upon which I mounted, and
from thence was taken into the ship in a very weak condition.