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rope was fastened around her body and she was 

 soon on shore, although after no little effort. 

 She soon, however, died of exhaustion. The 

 buck ran off east on the beach, but unless its 

 instinct is strong enough to teach it to follow 

 the beast east to the mainland, seventy miles 

 distant, it will soon starve, as the sand hills and 

 meadows are now bare of vegetation. 



