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face, rendered their fituation more alarming every moment. In 
the anguilh of hunger, they gnawed the flefli of their arms : they 
faw the gulf of death opening gradually under their feet; they 
embraced each other, determined to plunge together into the fea, 
and put an end to their mifery, from which they had no profpedl 
of efcaping: they had hailed the day for the laft time, when they 
difcovered a fail. How great muft have been their joy ! One 
ftript off his fhirt, and fufpended it on the muzzle of their gun: 
the velTel was a whale-filher which obferved them; and putting 
out her boat, faved thefe two men from impending death. 
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