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relaxed thereby ; and all put together 

 was fo far from anfwering our neceffi- 

 ties, that many at this time perifhed 

 with hunger. A boy, when no other 

 eatables could be found, having picked 

 up the liver of one of the drowned men 

 (whofe carcafe had been torn to pieces 

 by the force with which the fea drove 

 it among the rocks) was with difficulty 

 withheld from making a meal of it. The 

 men were fo affiduous in their refearch 



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after the few things which drove from the 

 wreck, that in order to have no fliarers 

 of their good fortune, they examined 

 the (hore no lefs by night than by day j 

 fo that many of thofe who were lefs 

 alert, or not fo fortunate as their neigh- 

 bours, perifhed with hunger, or were 

 driven to the laft extremity. It muft 

 be obferved that on the i 4th of May we 

 were caft away, and it was not till the 

 twenty-fifth of this month, that provifion 

 was ferved regularly from the ftore-tent. 



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