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 almot tarved themelves, forbearing all orts of Food, unles a Mouthful or two of Bread the whole Day, o that thoe who urvived were as weak as it was poible for Men to be and alive.

But if the dimal Propect they et out with, gave them Anxiety, Trouble, or Pain, what mut their Fears and Apprehenions be, when they had not one Drop of Water left, or any other Liquor to moiten or animate. This was their Cae, when (by the working of Divine Providence, no doubt,) they were brought into Soundings, and at Night anchored in even Fathom Water: This was an inexpreible Joy to them, and, as it were, fed the expiring Lamp of Life with freh Spirits; but this could not hold long. When the Morning came, they aw Land from the Mat-Head, but it was at o great a Ditance, that it afforded but an indifferent Propect to Men who had drank nothing for the two lat Days; however, they dipatch’d their Boat away, and late the ame Night it return’d, to their no mall Comfort, with a load of Water, informing them, that they had got off the Mouth of Meriwinga River on the Coat of Surinam.

One would have thought o miraculous an Ecape hould have wrought ome Reformation, but alas, they had no ooner quenched their Thirt, but they had forgot the Miracle, till Scarcity of Proviions awakened their Senes, and bid them guard againt tarving; their allowance was very mall, and yet they would profanely ay,

In puruance of thee honet Endeavours, they were teering for the Latitude of Barbadoes, with what little they had left, to look out for more, or Starve; and, in their Way, met a Ship that anwered their Neceities, and after that a Brigantine; the former was called the Greyhound, belonging to St.