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which here represent the tongues of land 

 radiating from the common centre of the island. 

 These are separated by deep bays, over which 

 it is impossible to cross on foot; and they 

 soon discovered, to their consternation and 

 despair, that after pursuing their direction by 

 compass, they always arrived at one of these 

 impassable bays, the shore of which they traced 

 up, only to fall upon another tongue of the 

 same sort, where they met with water, and 

 were again obliged to retrace their steps. 

 After suffering from starvation for several days, 

 half frozen when asleep, at night; with no 

 covering but their scanty apparel, and the long 

 grass in which they sought shelter, they at last 

 found, on the shore, a dead whale, which they 

 began ravenously to devour. The consequence 

 of this indulgence was a general dysentery 

 which lasted a week, and they were hardly 



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