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finding it likewife very cold, fhe gave him a little 
milk j the boy then cried, <c O my father in the 
fnow ! Oh ! father ! father !” and then expired. 
The mother told the filler the boy was dead, and 
then laid him in the manger near where the filler was. 
In the mean while the quantity of milk given by the 
> goat diminifhed daily, and the fowls being dead they 
could no more diftinguifh night and day ; but ac- 
cording to their calculation the time was near when 
the other goat fhould kid, which as they computed 
would happen about the middle of April ; at length 
they found the goat was kidding by its cries : the 
filler helped it.: they killed the kid to fave the milk 
for their own fubfiltence. And now they knew it 
was the middle of April. Whenever they called this 
goat it would come and lick their faces and hands, 
and gave them every day two pounds of milk, for 
which reafon they Hill bear a great affedlion to this 
fame goat. 
They fay, during all this time, hunger gave 
them but little uneafinefs, except on the firll five or 
fix days : that their greatell pain was from the ex- 
treme coldnefs of the melted fnow water, which fell 
on them, from the flench of the dead afs, dead goats, 
fowls, from lice, 6ec. but more than all from the 
very uneafy pofture they were obliged to continue 
in : for though the place in which they were buried 
was 1 2 Englifii feet long, 8 wide, and y high, the 
manger in which they fat fquatting againfi: the wall, 
was no more than 3 feet four inches broad. 
For 3 6 days they had no evacuation by ftool after the 
firfi: days: the melted fnow water (which after 1'orne 
time they drank without doing them harm) was dis- 
charged 
