viate mine - from the time of our shipwreck, he was never heard once to murmur: but by precept and example, endeavored to keep up the spirits of those who had as little cause to murmur as himself--for my own part, the miseries that I had endured since that melancholly event, had afforded me but little leisure to reflect upon the situation of any but myself. At the fall of the tide, we were so fortunate as to find a few mussels, and then following the windings of the coast, we pursued our journey for three or four days, over sharp craggy rocks, where perhaps no human being ever trod before, uncertain which way to proceed, incommoded by the heat, and exhausted by the fatigues of our march. In this our most deplorable situation, however, and at the very instant that we were all nearly famished with hunger, Heaven was pleased to send us some relief when we least expected it--some of the crew who led the way, had the good fortune to discover a dead seal on the beach--a knife being in possession of one of them, they cut up their prey, dressed part of the flesh on the spot, and carried the rest with them.

As we were now in possession of provision, and could not expect to find water by traversing the sea shore, it was thought most adviseable once more to bend our course backward, in search of it among the barren sands: for from our feelings we judged that we could not possibly survive a day longer without drink; our tongues were nearly as dry as