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feelings of fympathy towards others. Although 

 they knew that we were lying waiting in 

 fad fufpenfe, and without food or drink, ex- 

 cept fome ftale plantains and bad water, not- 

 withftanding the boat remained on fhore full 

 twelve hours after they landed, they had not 

 the liberality^— the compafTion, I might fay, to 

 fend off either a bit, or a drop to the mailer 

 of the veffel, whom they had kept waiting; 

 or to the perfon whofe provifions they had 

 eaten. 



We could not but feel hurt at this ne«* 

 jgfed : but we recollected that they landed at 

 night, and in a ftate of fatigue and difcomfort 

 but little calculated to extend their confidera- 

 tion beyond their own perfons ; and we hoped 

 to feel it the lefs on account of fpeedily reach- 

 ing the haven whither we were bound : but a 

 as if the torments of this vexatious voyage 

 were never to end, when the boat reached us, 

 it was difcovered that the tide did not ferve 

 for us to get under weigh ; and, confequently, 

 we were obliged to fpend two hours of more 

 tedious waiting than all that had pafled, be- 

 fore we could open our fails to the wind. At 

 length the boat, being hauled up aftern, and 



