As soon as the ship got up to the wreck, she was hove-to, and I followed Mr Brand, with Ben Yool, into the boat.  There was still a great deal of sea running; and when we got up to the wreck, there was no little danger, we discovered, in getting alongside her.  There were masts and spars still hanging on by the rigging around her, which would at once have stove in our boat if we had got among them incautiously, and we should very likely have lost our own lives.  There was only one man on the ship's bottom; we saw him just lifting his head and watching us anxiously as we pulled round.  We could discover no spot free from danger; so we pulled off again to consult what was best to be done.  The poor wretch thought we were going to desert him, and shouted out to us in English and Spanish, imploring us to have compassion on him, and save his life.