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little meal left, and with this and half a sea fowl 

 a day to each man, they made a kind of pottage. 

 " We had flayed our fowle, for they will not pull; 

 and Robert Ivet was the first to make use of the 

 skins by burning off the feathers; so they became 

 a great dish of meate, and as for the garbidge, it 

 was not throwne away" . ..." at length w^as all 

 our meate spent, and our fowle restie and dry; 

 but being no remedy, we were content with the 

 salt broth for dinner, and the halfe fowle for sup- 

 per." Nor was this the worst ; they were com- 

 pelled at last to eat their candles, and to fry the 

 skins and crushed bones of the fowl in candle- 

 grease, which, with a little vinegar, is stated to 

 have made " a good dish of meate." Just before 

 they reached the land, and the last of their fowls 

 was in the steep-tub, Robert Ivet, vvdiom Hudson 

 is said to have displaced as mate, and next to 

 Greene the chief mutineer, died for sheer want. 

 They were now in the bay of Galloway, wdiere 

 they met with a Fowey fishing-smack, the people 

 of which agreed, for a certain sum, to carry them 

 into Plymouth.* 



Such is the substance of Abacuk Pricket^s nar- 

 rative; and meagre and suspicious as it is, the 

 most remarkable circumstance is that it appeared 

 satisfactory in England; at least no further in- 

 quiry seems to have been made into the most in- 



* Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iii. p. 596* 



