he dropped and having a few dried shell fish about five or six from time to time put one in his mouth which only to his pains from which however soon little supply failed he was released by death for im and another man i mentioned a little before to have expired under the like circumstances when we returned from unsuccessful enterprise we made a grave in the sands � it would have greatly to the tenderness and of captain cheap if at this time he had of that attention he to self preservation is hardly but where the consequence of re others must be immediately and fatal to our selves but i would venture to affirm that in these last as well as some others a perhaps i ite to the emergency might have been admitted jl k i with a due regard to his own necessities the captain had better opportunities of his stock than any of ns for his rank was considered by the indian as a reason for supplying him when he would not find a bit for us upon the evening of the day in which these happened the captain producing a large piece of boiled seal suffered no one to partake with him but the surgeon who was the only man m favour at this time ye did not indeed any relief from him in our present condition for we had a few small to eat but the men could pot help expressing the greatest indignation f t his neglect of the deceased d by or ths t be deserved to be deserted by the rest r behaviour ii tiu l e to pass up ver was for i� iii had so with a most tempt by we were harassed to a de thai to be fatal to more of us bat oar guide va to condition oar had aa t for as to go that way im had gone before in light bat for a was we conceived a t l that this was some short cut which was to voyage bat we had reason to tiiat the greater probability was the which was the wages of his undertaking i ei to his settlement by this rather than another his motive for preferring it to the way we took d where there was a carrying place of m which it have been impossible to have carried country wears the most uncouth desolate aod ragged aspect imaginable it is so aa to d courage the most sanguine from attempts to ih tie it were it for no reason than the constant ef rains or rather which pour down here and j and surf the prevailing winds this coast it must be rendered all entrance to the woods is not only extremely difficult but � not only from any you are likely to meet from beasts for even these could hardly find convenient here but from the deep which is the soil of country and in which the woods may be said rather to float than grow so that except upon a range of l� en s which form the sea coast the traveller find sound footing with scene l us we were now setting out in search of food whidi but the most pressing instances of i d io d by b � john n� hm � um e us to do we had indeed a young indian servant to our for our conductor who was left by him to show i w s re fee i fish was most plenty the gone with the rest of his family in the with a view of get some seal upon a trip which would detain him from ns i net ir four days g the coast some time with very little success � began to think of returning to the but six of ttie men wit the indian having advanced some few paces before the got into the boat first which they had no sooner they put off and left us to return no more ai now all tiie difficulties we had hitherto endured seemed light in com of what we expected to from this treachery of men who with the boat had taken away everything that b be the means of preserving our lives hie little clothes fe had saved from the wreck our and were gone except a little powder which must be preserved for fires and one gun which i had and was now useless for want of and all these wants were now come upon us at a time n we could not be worse for supplying them yet under these dismal and for appearances was our delivery now preparing and from hopeless circumstances we to draw hereafter an scarce to be of the ways of it was at that time little suspected by us that ih in which we founded all our hopes of escaping firom this savage coast would certainly have proved the fatal cause of us till we were consumed by the labour ships requisite to row her round the and great head lands for it was impossible to carry her by land as we did fee boats of the indians at present no condition could be worse than we ours to be there ran at this time a v high sea which breaking with great fury upon this coast made it very improbable that in any proportion to our wants could be found upon it yet as this d by � of � prospect was and though little could be from this quarter i could not help as i from the rest casting my eyes towards the sea thus to look oat i thought i saw bow am upon the top of a sea that looked black upon c still more intently i imagined at last to be a � � fleeting afterwards how it for like venture out in so a sea and at such a 