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we never could learn from them. At 

 this interview we bartered with them 

 for a dog or tvyo, which we roafted 

 and eat. In a few days after, they made 

 us another vifir, and bringing their 

 wives with them, took up their abode 

 with us for fome days ; then again left us. 



Whenever the weather permitted, 

 which was now grown fomething drier, 

 but exceeding cold, we employed our- 

 felves about the wreck, from which we 

 had, at fundry times, recovered feveral 

 articles of provifion and liquor : thefe 

 were depofited in the ftore-tent. Ill- 

 humour and difcontent, from the difS- 

 culties we laboured under in procuring 

 fubliftence, and the little profpeft there 

 was of any amendment in our condition, 

 was now breaking out apace. In fome 

 it fliewed itfelf by a feparation of fettle- 

 ment and habitation ; in others, by a refo- 

 lution of leaving the captain entirely, 

 and making, a wild journey by them- 



Da felves, 



