along fhore to get a few fhell-fifh ; and 

 juft as we have made a little fire in order 

 to drefs them, he has commanded us into 

 the boat again, and kept us rowing tha 

 whole night without ever landing. It 

 is irnpoflible for me ta defcribe the mi- 

 ferable ftate we were reduced to : our bo- 

 dies were fo emaciated, that we hardly 

 appeared the. figures of men. It bas 

 often happened to me in the coldeft night, 

 both in hail and fnow, where we had 

 nothing but an open beach to lay down 

 upon, in order to procure a little reft, 

 that I have been obliged to pull off the 

 few rags I had on, as it was impoffible 

 to get a moment's fleep with them on for 

 the vermin that fwarmed about them ; 

 though I ufed, as often as I had time, 

 to take my clothes off. and putting them 

 upon a large ftone, beat them with ano- 

 ther, in hopes of killing hundreds at 

 once; for it was endlefs work to pick 

 them off, What we fuffered from this, 



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