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

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seen on their faces before, since the ship¬
wreck. They boiled the bird, adding a little
salt water to the snow for a relish, and made
some broth, which they found a delicious
meal. They had discovered nothing else that
could be used for food on all these dreary
shores, except the cranberries which have
been already mentioned. They stopped the
boat’s leaks as before, and proceeded the same
day about seven miles. On the day follow¬
ing they had made six miles, when the wind
rising, forced them to put on shore, and the
rain falling again, unfroze the holes in their
boat. The snow in the woods would not
bear their weight. The first of February
they were obliged to make their boat sea¬
worthy as before and again set sail, but the
cold and floating ice prevented their making
more than five miles all day. One of them
was continually employed in breaking the
ice with a pole. In proceeding, their boat
made so much water, they were forced to
keep baling incessantly. After sailing six¬
teen miles they saw a very high point of land,
which they judged to be six leagues off, and
soon after an island which they imagined
must be that of St. Paul, near Cape Breton,