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a time when we could not be worfe fitu-^ 

 ated for fupplying them. Yet under 

 thefe difmal and forlorn appearances 

 was our delivery now preparing ; and 

 from thefe hopelefs circumftances were 

 we to draw hereafter an inftance fcarce 

 to be parallelledj of the unfearchable 

 ways of Providence. It was at that 

 time little fufpeded by us, that the 

 barge, in which we founded all our 

 hopes of efcaping from this favage 

 coaft, would certainly have proved the 

 fatal caufe of detaining us till we were 

 confumed by the labour and hardfhips 

 requifite to row her round the capes and 

 great head-lands ; for it was impoflible 

 to carry her by land, as we did the boats 

 of the Indians. At prefent, no condi- 

 tion could be worfe than we thought 

 ours to be : there ran at this time a very- 

 high fea, which breaking with great 

 fury upon this coaft, made it very impro- 

 bable that fuftenance in any proportion 



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