Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

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WRECK AND ESCAPE
sea, drew out small muscles, which they ate
heartily; and one of the boys brought me a
leaf of scurvy-grass: but I began to be sick
with a feverish complaint, and became so
parched with thirst, that I would have given
all I had for a draught of fresh water. Trust¬
ing that the water which stood in holes would
be freshest in the highest part of the rock,
I sought for it, but it proved salt: I drank it,
however, until my thirst was quenched,
though vomiting followed, which I am per¬
suaded preserved my life.
“ Between ten and eleven we saw a ship in
full sail standing towards us, which lifted up
our hearts with joy. She came nearer and
nearer, and we all ascended to the top of the
rock, and waved our hats to show ourselves
to the men on board. But they neither ap¬
proached nor sent their b»at to learn our con¬
dition, for what reason we knew not. The
captain was a Dane, of the same country with
our former kind master. As the ship receded
our hearts began to fail, and our counten¬
ances changed to their former paleness. We
conceived ourselves utterly abandoned. We
could not suppose, even should another ship
by chance come in sight, that the mariners