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an uncommon inftance of hearty too weak to get her up, and dark- kindnefs, and generousfelf-denial'; nefb coming on, they were obliged
the impatience of their curiofity muft have been both increafcd andjuftified in proportion as they were inierellcd in the account that was to gratify it ; yet even this curiofity, in which life itlelf was concerned, they had the kind- nefs and the fortitude to reprefs.
to lie down upon the fand, with no other covering than the branches of a tree, and in this condition they pafled the night. As fjon as the morning dawned, they went again to look for the boat, which the furf had driven from where they left her. As they walked
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rather than delay the refrefhment along the coaft they faw a man.
of others for its jjratification.
The account which was given by the two adventurers when they awoke, was to this effeft :
About three o'clock on the day they fet out, they got round a point, about fix leagues eaft of the rock* ; as they approached, it had
and advanced towards him, upon which he ran away into the woods, that lay near the beach, and were very thick. They went on, and foon after difcovered the body of thei'- comprmion Bothvvell, which had been dragged up the land a confiderable diltance from the
the appearance of a double point, water, and torn to pieces by fome
which encouraged them to hope, wild beaft. This terr fied them
that between the two points they exceedingly, and having found the
Jhould find an harbour; but in this boat, the dread of pafling another
hope they were difappointed, for night on ihore determined them
they found alarge furf all along the immediately to return. They were,
coait. However, about five o'clock, however, prevented in the attempt
having feen only one of the na- by a frelh gale at weft, and be-
tives, they ventured to pull in for fore they could put back, the boat
the Ihore, but the moment they overfet with them a lecond time.
got into the furf, the boat over fet. By this accident poor Both- well was drowned, and the other two, who reached the fiiore in an exhaufted and feeble condition, were left dcRirute of every kind of provifion, except a fmall keg of brandy. As foon zs they had a little recovered their ftrength.
and drove with them along the jhore. After much ftruggling and fwimming, they got once more iafe on the land : but as they had now been falling ever fince three o'clock the day before, they were fainting with hunger and fatigue. It happened, however, that they met with a fruit re-
they crawled along the ihore to fembling an apple, which they
feek for the boat, having no other eagerly gathered and eat, without
hopeoffhelter from the vvildbcafts, knowing either its name or its
which might be cxpefted to come quality. By good fortune it did
abroad in the night. After fome them no harm ; and being fome-
fearch they found her, but iht7 were what refreflied by their antedilu-
- Itdocsnqt appear bv any map, that in lat. ^j. +o. 250 leagues eaft of
the Cape, the (uppol'cd (ituation cf their rock, they could he wjthin iix leagues of any part of the main land j thsy mull thf:iefore be all miltaken m their reckoning.
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