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returned from this unfuccefsful enter- 

 prize, we made a grave in the fands. 

 It would have redounded greatly to 

 the tendernefs and humanity of captain 

 Cheap, if at this time he had remitted 

 fomewhat of that attention he (hewed to 

 felf-prefervation ; which is hardly allow- 

 able but where the confequence of reliev- 

 ing others muil be immediately and 

 manifeftly fatal to ourfelves ; but I 

 would venture to affirm, that in thefe 

 laft affefting exigencies, as well as fome 

 others, a fparing perhaps adequate to the 

 emergency, might have been admitted 

 confidently with a due regard to his own 

 necefnties. The captain had better op- 

 portunities of recruiting his ftock than 

 any of us ; for his rank was confidered 

 by the Indian as a reafon for fupplying 

 him when he would not find a bit for us. 

 Upon the evening of the day in which 

 thefe difafters happened, the captain pro- 

 ducing 



