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222 hand on the trigger of his rifle, expecting a new assault each instant. But timely aid came, and he reached his friends safely.

All the toils and sufferings of the adventurous party were at length rewarded by the discovery of a noble river running through a beautiful country, and at the point at which they saw it at least three or four miles across, and studded with numerous islands. They had seen many Australian rivers, but never any equal to this in beauty or magnitude. After exploring its course for a considerable distance, and making numerous interesting discoveries in the adjacent country, the party returned to Hanover Bay, where they fortunately rejoined the exploring vessel, which awaited them, on the 15th of April.

The adventures of a modern Robinson Crusoe, in the person of a poor sailor of Paington, in Devonshire, named Charles Goodridge, are related in a narrative written by himself in 1844. Goodridge, with his fellow shipmates, was wrecked when on a sealing voyage in 1821, and cast ashore upon one of the Crozet islands in the South Seas, uninhabited by any human being, and without a tree or a shrub growing upon its barren soil. In this situation they furnished themselves with such aid as pieces saved from the wreck would afford, subsisting upon birds, the sea-elephants, and fish. In this way