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 along fliore to get a few fliell-fifli ; and 

 juft as we have made a little fire in order 

 todrefs them, he has commanded us into 

 the boat again, and kept us rowing th© 

 whole night without ever landing. It 

 is impoflible for me to defcribe the mi- 

 ferable ftate we were reduced to : our bo- 

 dies were fo emaciated, that we hardly- 

 appeared the figures of men. It has 

 often happened to me in the coldeft night, 

 both in hail and fnow, where we had 

 nothing but an open beach to lay down 

 upon, in order to procure a little reft, 

 that I have been obliged to pull off the 

 few rags I had on, as it was impoffible 

 to get a moment's fleep with them on for 

 the vermin that fwarmed about them i 

 though I ufed, as often as I had time, 

 to take my clothes off. and putiing them 

 upon a large ftone, beat them with ano- 

 ther, in hopes of killing hundreds at 

 once; for it was endlefs work to pick 

 them off. What we fuffered from this, 



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