i o jfhe Dijlrejfes and Adventures 



left us. After we had been upon this Ifland 

 about two Hours, where we could perceive 

 no Poffibility of Subfiftance, all of us ima- 

 gining we muft inevitably periih there, and 

 inwardly lamenting our hard Fate, tho' we 

 forbore to difcourage one another by fruitlefs 

 Moans, on a fudden (to our great Surprize) 

 we faw the Boat making towards us which 

 had brought us thither : The Sight of which 

 raifed different Conje&ures in our Minds* 

 fuppofing they had either relented, and 

 were fending to fetch us back to the Ship, or 

 elfe that they had refblved to difpatch us im- 

 mediately on the Spot ; but upon their Ap- 

 proach, we found ourfelves both ways mis- 

 taken, for prefenting a naked Man to us, 

 whom they had brought under a ftrong 

 Guard, they told us their Bufinefs was only 

 to add one more to our Number, and then 

 throwing us four fmall Pieces of Beef and 

 fome Bisket, in a difdainful Manner, which 

 they faid was more then we deferved, they 

 put off to Sea again, 



The Perfon whom they brought to us 

 proved to be the Gunner of their own Sloop, 

 and who (after they had boarded us) was 



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