of John Cockburn, &c. 211 

 Attempt to get round the Point, but could 

 not accomplifli it by any Means ; for by this 

 Trial I had like to have been dalhed to 

 Pieces againft the Rocks, fo that I was 

 very glad to defift, and return back to my 

 Tree. 



Before I came to this Place, I had been 

 thirty-three Days alone, and having waited 

 three Days and Nights in the Tree, in the Bark 

 of which I have cut my Name ; and all my 

 Plantains and Coco Nuts being gone, and no 

 Poifibility appearing of my ever being able 

 to get paft this dreadful Point, I concluded 

 for certain, that this was the Place Provi- 

 dence had dire£ted me to, to end my Days 

 at, tho'now and then fome faint Glimmerings 

 of Hope, would, as it were, dawn upon my 

 finking Spirits. 



This Tree, my Habitation, was about 

 one hundred Feet diftant from the Sea, and 

 I have been fometimes four Hours and 

 more getting up and down the Rock where- 

 on it grew, as I have taken Notice by the 

 Sun. As I fat in it one Evening, I faw a 

 Creature come on Shore on a fandy Bay out 



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