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cordingly, it was determined to go up 

 that Lagoon in which we had before got 

 fome feal, to provide ourfelves with fome 

 more ; but we did not leave the bay till 

 we had made fome fearch after the un- 

 happy marines we had left on fliore. 

 Could we have found them, we had now 

 agreed to take them on board again, 

 though it would have been the certain 

 deftrudion of us all. This, at another 

 time, would have been mere madnefs ; 

 but we were now refigned to our fare, 

 which we none of us thought far off; 

 however, there was nothing to be feen 

 of them, and no traces but a mufl^et on 

 the beach. 



Upon returning up the Lagoon, we 

 were fo fortunate as to kill fome feal, 

 which we boiled, and laid in the boat 

 for fea-ftock. While we were ranging 

 along fliore in detached parties, in queft 

 of this, and whatever other eatable 

 might come in our way, our furgeon, 



who 



