( 8? ) 



cordingly, it was determined to go up 

 that Lagoon in which we had before got 

 fome feal, to provide ourfelves with fome 

 more ; but we did not leave the bay till 

 we had made fome fearch after the un- 

 happy marines we had left on fliore. 

 Could we have found them, we had now 

 agreed to take them on board again, 

 though it would have been the certain 

 deftru&ion of us all. This, at another 

 time, would have been mere madnefs ; 

 but we were now refigned to our fare, 

 which we none of us thought far off; 

 however, there was nothing to be feen 

 of them, and no traces but a mufket on 

 the beach. 



Upon returning up the Lagoon, we 

 were fo fortunate as to kill fome feal, 

 which we boiled, and laid in the boat 

 for fea-ftock. While we were ranging 

 along (hore in detached parties, in queft 

 of this, and whatever other eatable 

 might come in our way, our furgeon, 



who 



