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this night ; and of thofe who for want 

 of room took fhelter under a great tree, 

 which flood them in very little Head, two 

 more perilhed by the feverity of that 

 cold and rainy night. In the morning, 

 the calls of hunger, which had been 

 hitherto fuppreffed by our attention to 

 more immediate dangers and difficulties, 

 were now become too importunate to be 

 refifted. We had moft of us fafted 

 eight and forty hours, ibme more 5 it 

 was time, therefore, to make enquiry 

 among ourfelves what ftore of fufte- 

 nance had been brought from the wreck 

 by the providence of forne, and what 

 could be procured on the ifland by the 

 induilry of others : but the produce of 

 the one amounted to no more than two 

 or three pounds of bifcuit duft referved 

 in a bag ; and all the fuccefs of thofe 

 who ventured abroad, the weather being 

 ftill exceedingly bad, was to kill one fea- 

 gull and pick fome wild fellery, Thefe, 



C 2 therefore, 



