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 dappearance of inhabitants where they landed; that they had found a ſecure harbour, well ſheltered from the weather, and alſo ſome freſh water.

This good account revived every one, ſo that they purſued their labour in completing and loading a raft they were making; and they alſo loaded their boats again with ſuch ſtores as were moſt likely to ſuffer from the ſpray of the ſea. Captain Wilſon ordered all the people into the boats, with which, and the raft, they left their old habitation with heavy hearts.

After a toilſome paſſage, they all landed faſe on the iſland, but paſſed an anxious night, as the people who were left in the morning had obſerved certain ſigns of human inhabitants having been lately there; it was therefore abſolutely neceſſary that they ſhould keep a conſtant watch.

The next day the boats were ſent again to the wreck, when it was diſcovered that the ſhip was ſo damaged, that there was little hope of its remaining together till the next day, as the began already to part. A gloom now overſpread every countenance, and every one ſeemed to think himſelf cut off for ever from the world, and all they held moſt dear. They could not help recollecting that they were ſtrangers to the manner and diſpoſitions of the inhabitants of the iſland on which misfortune had thrown then;