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thrown afide and rotten. The prefling 

 calls of hunger drove our men to their 

 wits end, and put them upon a variety of 

 ^devices to fatisfy it. Among the inge- 

 nious this way, one Phips, a boatfwain's 

 mate, having got a water puncheon, 

 fcuttled it ; then lafhing two logs, one on 

 each fide, fet out in queft of adventures in 

 this extraordinary and original piece of 

 imbarkation. By this means he would 

 frequently, when all the reft were ftarv- 

 ing, provide himfelf with wild- fowl ; and 

 it muft have been very bad weather in- 

 deed which could deter him from put- 

 ting out to fea when his occafions re- 

 quired. Sometimes he would venture 

 far out in the offing, and be abfent the 

 whole day : at laft, it was his misfortune, 

 at a great diftance from fliore, to be over- 

 fet by a heavy fea ; but being near a rock, 

 though no fwimmer, he managed fo as 

 to fcramble to it, and with great difficulty 

 afcended it ; there he remained two 



days 



