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THE VOYAGE OF THE JEAXXETTE. 



and sent them to the hut where they had been received 



when they came the night before. 



Both of the men were weak and sick with dysentery. 



They were in wretched plight, scantily clothed (for 



the natives h a cl 

 only lent them the 

 deer-skin cover- 

 ings), and insuffi- 

 ciently fed. They 

 kept in the hut 

 which had been as- 

 =^ signed to them, too 

 miserable to go 

 away from it, when, 

 in the evening of 

 November 2d, 

 three days after 

 j ^y the commandant 

 §XN had gone off with 

 ^^J their dispatch, as 

 Nindemann lay on 

 the rude bed, and 

 Noros sat looking 

 towards the open 

 door, a man came 

 in dressed in fur. 

 Nindemann h a d 

 turned to look at 

 him, b u t turned 

 ^^%W /{/?.>' ) back upon his bed, 



Fac-Simile of Capt. De Long's Map. wlldl the Uiail Came 



forward to Noros, who was sitting upon the table, and 

 spoke to him. 



" My God, Mr. Melville ! " said Noros, " are you alive ? 

 We thought that the whaleboat's were all dead ! " 



