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and the care they had taken to compute their melancholy dayg 
was of no avail. 
They soon reached a new river, where they halted for the 
night. The frequent impediments of rivers much retarded 
their progress. Few of these, however, are of very great 
magnitude at any distance from the sea ; but as they deriveii 
all their subsistence from the watery element, they were oblig- 
ed to submit to the inconvenience of passing them in general 
where the tide flowed. This will account for difficulties, from 
which, had it been practicable, a more inland course would 
have exempted them. 
As the weather was very unfavorable next morning, some 
of the company were afraid to cross the river, upon which 
Hynes, and about ten more, being impatient to proceed, swam 
across, leaving the rest, among whom was master Law, be- 
hind them. Having gained the opposite shore, they proceed- 
ed till they came to a place where they met with shell-fish, 
wood and water. Here they halted two days, in expectation 
of the arrival of the others ; but as it still blew fresh, they con- 
cluded that their more timorous companions had not ventured 
to cross the river ; therefore, thinking it in vain to wait any 
longer, they went forward. 
They had not traveled many hours before they had the 
good fortune to discover a dead seal on the beach. One of 
the knives being in the possession of this party, they cut up 
their prey, dressed part of the flesh on the spot, and carried 
the rest with them. 
The next morning the party left behind overtook them. ^ It 
was now conducted by the ship's steward, and in the interval 
from the recent separation, it appeared that they had suffi^red 
extremely from the natives, from hunger and fatigue, and that 
five of them were no more. Thus these unfortunate men 
v/ere rapidly losing some of their body ; yet the reflection of 
their forlorn condition did not rouse them to the good effects 
of unanimity, which alone, had it been a permanent principle, 
or enforced by authority to which they ought to have submit- 
ted, might have saved them many distresses, and would have 
tended to the preservation of numbers. Concord is always 
strength; the contrary, even in the happiest circumstances, is 
weakness and ruin. 
Having shared the remainder of the seal among them, and 
taken some repose, they again proceeded in one bod}^ and 
ofter some time came to a lofty mountain, which it was neces- 
sary to cross, or go round the blufT point of a rock on which 
