An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Volume 7Bradford, 1802 |
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Page 122 - Our sufferings were now as great as human strength could bear ; but we were convinced that good spirits Were a better support than great bodily strength, for on this day Thomas Mathews, quarter-master, perished from hunger and cold.
Page 64 - ... and chiefly by famine, which put the rest upon all shifts and devices to support themselves. One day, when I was at home in my hut with my Indian dog, a party came to my door, and told me their necessities were such, that they must eat the creature or starve. Though their plea was urgent, I could not help using some arguments to endeavour to dissuade them from killing him, as his faithful services and fondness deserved it at my hands ; but, without weighing...
Page 47 - ... according to the several characters and complexions amongst us, it was necessary that the observer himself should have been free from all impressions of danger. Instances there were, however, of behaviour so very remarkable, they could not escape the notice of any one who was not entirely bereaved of his senses; for some were in this condition to all intents and purposes ; particularly one, in the ravings...
Page 51 - We had most of us fasted eight and forty hours, some more; it was time, therefore, to make inquiry among ourselves what store of sustenance had been brought from the wreck by the providence of some, and what could be procured on the island by the industry of others : but the produce of the one amounted to no more than two or three pounds of...
Page 56 - ... that country) while preying on these Carcases, in order to make a meal of them. But a provision by no means proportionable to the number of mouths to be fed, could, by our utmost industry, be acquired from that part of the island we had hitherto traversed ; therefore, till we were in a capacity of making more distant excursions, the wreck was to be applied to, as often as possible, for such supplies as could be got out of her. But as this was a very precarious fund in its...
Page 64 - The pressing calls of hunger drove our men to their wits' end, and put them on a variety of devices to satisfy it. Among the ingenious this way, one Phipps, a boatswain's mate, having got a water puncheon, scuttled it ; then lashing two logs, one on each side, set out in quest of adventures in this extraordinary and original piece of embarkation.
Page 93 - Cheap was so ill, that if he had had but a few leagues further to have gone without relief, he could not have held out. It pleased God now that our sufferings, in a great measure, were drawing to an end. What things our cacique had brought with him from the wreck, he here buried under ground, in order to conceal them from the Spaniards, who would not have left him a rusty nail, if they had known of it. Towards evening, we set off again ; and about nine the same night, to our great joy, we observed...
Page 50 - Whichever way we looked, a scene of horror presented itself: on one side the wreck, (in which was all that we had in the world to support and subsist us,) together with a boisterous sea, presented us with...
Page 104 - I immediately walked to the house, and knocked at the door ; but the porter not liking my figure, which was half French half Spanish, with the addition of a large pair of boots covered with dirt...
Page 68 - ... laid ourselves down, in hopes of finding a remedy for our hunger in sleep; but we had not long composed ourselves, before one of our company was disturbed by the blowing of some animal at his face, and, upon opening his eyes, was not a little astonished to see, by the glimmering of the fire, a iarge beast standing over him.