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were inexpreffible. This child had been the object of his fondeft care during a long and perilous journey; and now to lose him was diftraction it was with the utmost difficulty that his companions could tear him from the spot.

They had not proceeded far before one of the party asked for a fhell of water: this being given him, he folicited a fecond, and immediately after he had drunk it up, he laid himself down and inftantly expired. So much were they habituated to scenes of distress, that, by this time, death had ceafed to be regarded as fhocking-it was even confidered as a confummation, rather to be withed than dreaded. They left this poor man where he dropped; and they had not advanced far, before another complained of extreme weakness and fat down on the fand by the sea-fide to rest himself. Him too they left, compelled by fevere neceffity, in order to fearch for wood and water, promifing, if fuccefsful, they would return and aflift him.

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Having fought, in vain, for a comfortable refting place for the night, they were all obliged to repofe on the fands. One of them humanely recollecting the fituation of their comrade, who was unable to proceed, went back to the fpot where he had been left, in hopes of recovering him; but the unhappy man was not to be found; and, as he had nothing to thelter or protect him, it was concluded, that he had fallen a prey to the wild beafts.

With the first approach of day they refumed their journey. Their fituation was now more deplorable than ever. For many hours they had not been able to procure a drop of fresh water; the glands of their throats and mouths became

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much fwollen; and, in the extremity of thirst, they were induced to swallow their own urine. This was the crifis of calamity. The mifery they now underwent is fhocking to relate. For two days they had exifted without food or water; and the fteward, whose benevolence ought to immortalize his memory, now followed his little favourite into another world. In fhort, to fuch a ftate of want and weakness were they now reduced, that death was stripped of all its terrors. In traverfing the fea-coaft, they found part of a fith, which afforded about a mouthful to each; but the want of water was much more feverely felt than that of food.

Next morning, two more of the party were reduced to the moft languishing ftate; one of whom, unable to proceed a step farther, laid himfelf down; and his companions, deftitute of all means of affifting him, took an affectionate leave, and left him to expire,

Towards evening, on reaching a deep gully, where there was, at first, the profpect of finding fome water, they found another of the Grosvenor's crew, who had reached this fpot, lying dead, with his right hand cut off at the wrift. We are told, that his companions recollected it had been the common affeveration of the deceafed, "May I lofe my right hand, if this is not true;" and hence they fuperftitiously imagined that Providence had interfered, by a miracle, to fhew its indignation against his profaneness.

One of the crew, who had loft his own clothes in crofling a river, took this opportunity of fup-plying himself, by ftripping the dead man; and then they all proceeded till night, when they laid themselves

themselves down to fleep, without the leaft fuftenance but what their own water afforded them.

Next day brought no alleviation of their miferies. Neceffity impelled them to proceed, though hope fcarce darted a ray through the gloom of their profpects.

The whole party was, at laft, reduced to three perfons, Hynes, Evans, and Wormington; and thofe could only hope to be a few days behind their companions. Their faculties rapidly declined; they could fcarcely hear or fee; and a kind of fatuity feized their minds.

Their mifery, from thirst, became now fo intolerable, that Wormington earneftly importuned his two affociates to determine by lot who fhould die, in order that the others might be preferved by drinking his blood. Though Hynes was almoft become childish, this idea fhocked him; he fhed tears, and declared, that as long as he was able to walk he could not think of cafting lots, but that, fhould he be obliged to drop, they might ufe him as they pleased. On this, Wormington fhaking hands with Hynes and Evans, left them to proceed without him.

Every hour now feemed to throw a deeper gloom over their fate: nature could fupport no more. Hynes and Evans, however, made another effort to get on, without even hoping that relief was within the poffibility of their reach. This day they faw fomething before them which had the appearance of large birds; but judge their furprise, when, on approaching nearer, they found them to be men. Nearly blind and idiots, they did not, at firft, recollect, who their new-found Companions were; but after fome time they difco

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vered that they were four of the fteward's party, from which they had been feparated. One of them, a boy, named Price, advanced to meet them, and gave them the pleasing information, that his affociates had fresh water in their poffeffion. This infpired Hynes and Evans with new life; and reciprocal enquiries took place as to the fate of their loft companions. The three men, whom, Hynes and his companion had overtaken, were named Berney, Leary, and De Laffo. These hearing that Wormington was left behind, fet out in fearch of him, charging Hynes and Evans not to drink too freely of water, as feveral had expired from the eagerness with which they fwallowed this fluid after long abftinence. But the torments of thirst rendered them regardless of every other confideration; they were forcibly removed from the water, and the fource clofed with fand, to remove the temptation of excess.

Wormington was recovered by the humanity of those who went to find him, and a painful detail of sufferings took place, while they all refted in a kind of alcove. It appeared that the captain's fteward had been buried in the fand of the laft defert they had paffed, and that the furvivors were reduced to such extremity, that after he had been interred, they sent back two of their companions to cut off part of his flesh; but while they proceeded in this horrid bufinefs, they had the good fortune to difcover a young feal, newly driven on fhore and fresh bleeding, which proved a most seasonable relief. They farther ftated, that they had obtained fhell-fish in the fand, when none were to be feen above, by observing the manner in which the birds fcratched for them. Without

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Without this discovery, they muft infallibly have perished.

Hynes and Evans, recounting their adventures to the party they had joined, among other circumstances mentioned, that when the fhip's steward was left, he had decent apparel on. This tempt ed one of them to propose to Evans, who was pretty well recovered, to go back to the spot and trip the body; but the fteward was not to be found; and they concluded that the wild beasts had anticipated their defigns. These beafts of prey were fo numerous, as to be feen in companies of twenty or more; and it was the common and effectual practice of the travellers, to fhout as loud as poflible, to drive those formidable animals away.

Being now arrived at a favourable spot for wa ter and fhell-fish, they employed two days in colJecting provifions for their future march; and in refreshing themselves. Reft and food had an aftonishing effect in reftoring, not only the powers of the body, but of the mind; and in a short space they thought themfelves qualified to encounter new fatigues.

With extreme difficulty and danger they paffed a large river, fuppofed to be the Zon Dags, on a catamarand; and having reached the oppofite fhore, they looked back with terror and amazement on their fortunate efcape from being driven out to fea by the rapidity of the ftream. Here they found the fpecies of thell-fith which buries itself in the fand, and increased their fupplies with them.

The united party pursued their route over a defert country, where neither hut nor native was

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