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and Sea were high, and stipulated with us tlie same Con- 

 ditions the Sieur Testard had done. The Wind, Avhich was 

 very violent, over-set the Machine twice, but the Sieur La 

 Case who was a good Swimmer, easily got up upon it again, 

 and gain'd the Land in a short time, the favour of the Wind 

 having preserved him from 'the fury of the Current. As 

 soon as he was got a-shoar he made a fire, and we understood 

 the Signal : He retir'd afterwards into the thickest Woods, 

 and there pass'd the remainder of the Night. Next Morning 

 as he has twice inform'd us, he rambled about all day 

 without knowing whither he went, and that without finding 

 aught either to eat or drink. It was the same thing for 

 eight days following, so that if he had not taken some Pro- 

 visions along with him, he must inevitably ^ have perish'd 

 with Hunger and Fatigue ; and moreover his If alady still 

 augmented upon him. The eighth day he eaiight? , an Eel, 

 which he greedily devour'd raw : The ninth h'e'found;a Path 

 which led him to the House of an Inhabitant .of, thfe^ Tsland, 

 who instead of relieving him, deliver'd him up to Soldiers, 

 who carry'd him to the Port. \\\\^. \ ' " 



The Governor apprehending least we shoriM all, eeCape 

 one after another, and those who brought us Pi'0VisiG)>'^ con- 

 firming the same thing,^ he was at length constram'd by 

 these Eeasons, and some others, to let us come* all ashoar. 

 But to the end that this enlargement might not eecasioii us 

 too excessive Joy, he had the charity to tempet it by taking 

 from us about 200 pounds of Rice that had beeii lef(:/lis, 

 and which we had hitherto so carefully manag'd/ ' This was 

 about that time when Potatoes are good for ii,othing, and 

 then the Soldiers were oblig'd to buy Rice of the Governor 

 at their own Charges.^ He gave them to understfind that 



^ In orig. : " & les gens qui nous apportoient nos provisions se 

 plaignant sans cesse de la peine que cela leur donnoit." 



- " The Company pay a fixed price for every article That of the rice 

 is ten rix-dollars, or twenty-four gilders, for every roymuj of 3,400 



