ship they were chased a long way out of their course into the straits of and the wind turning contrary increased towards night to a violent tempest in this extremity it required the tenderness of to encourage whose low spirited condition made her more fearfully alive to the horrors of the raging sea f which indeed roared round them as if the watery desert had hungry lions of its own as well as the sandy of africa but ten times more terrible the ship s besides straining as if they would part asunder and the storm howling through the like the voices of those evil angels who u is believed were cast into the dreadful deep t ii two i or when the daylight appeared there was no of any but the ship was tossing in the centre of a mere wilderness of sea and under the and troubled clouds which were still driving by a fierce wind towards the south the sails were torn into and the ignorant of where they were let the ship drift at the mercy of the elements which not their fury because the prey no longer resisted but the helpless bark with rage it could be no great wrong of and if at such a time they exchanged one embrace together in everlasting farewell they then composed to die calmly as became them in each other s company not with any vain shrieks or struggles but as they had lived and loved thus sitting in a martyr like mood and listening to the rushes of the waters across the deck they heard a sudden noise overhead which caused to look forth and lo there were the drunken putting off from the ship s side in the long boat being to their fate by a glimpse of land which none but their experienced eyes could yet discover however they had not struggled far with their oars when three monstrous curling a great deal than any of the rest turned the boat over and over washing out all the poor souls that were therein the waves swallowed up one by one without letting even their dying cries be heard through the bewildering foam after this sacrifice as though it had appeased the angry deity of the ocean the storm sensibly subsided and in an hour or two the skies clearing up perceived that they were off a small solitary � the ship soon after striking upon a coral about two hundred from the shore the the two lovers of skies frowning with a storm lost no time in a rude with and empty barrels upon which placing with such stores and implements as he could collect he towards the land where they landed safely upon a little sandy beach their first act was to return thanks to god for their miraculous preservation after which they partook of a that after their was v ry needful and then ascended a gentle sloping hill which ave them a prospect of the island it was a small place without any human inhabitants � but there were millions of marine birds upon the rocks as tame as domestic fowls and a number of the interior country besides seemed well wooded with various trees and the ground furnished divers kinds of and some very gigantic vegetables together with many european flowers the of which to such desolate and places is a mystery to this day the weather again turning boisterous they took a rocky which the kind hand of nature had out so that it seemed to have been provided with a foresight of their wants thus with their stores from the ship they were against any present hardships � but one many unlucky lovers i have sighed for such an island to take refuge in from the world yet here were two such fond persons in such an asylum whom fate had set up an eternal bar such as this could not but present themselves very sorrowfully to the minds of and a nevertheless he served her with the most tender and devoted homage and as love taught to him contributed by a thousand apt to her comfort and ease in this manner suppose them to spend five or two lovers of days � the cave being their shelter and by fishing or or the providing a change of food so that excepting the original hardship of their fortune the lovers had little cause to complain their solitary condition however and the melancholy of led to many little acts of fondness from which were almost as painful to exchange as to withhold it was no wonder then if sometimes in the anguish of his heart some expressions of impatience burst from his lips to which she answered with her tears at last one day when they were sitting on a rock which overlooked the sea they both turned at once towards each other with adverse faces and so despairing a look that they cast themselves by common consent into each other s arms in the next moment however forcing themselves asunder began as follows whilst covered her face with her hands i can bear this cruel life no longer better were we far apart as when you were living in and i for peace all over the world the restraint of distance was dreadful but and nothing so painful as this your tears flow before my sight yet i must not kiss them away without trembling nor soothe your audible grief upon my nor mingle my sighs with yours though we breathe the same limited air and not in a distant we were made for each other as our mutual love and yet here where there be none besides ourselves we must be several and my heart is torn asunder by such imperative there be but us two real creatures in the world and yet the horrible phantom of a third steps in between and us miserably apart i i 