PHILIP QUARLT.. 271

therefore pulling off his clothes, the water being but shallow,
he waded over with them in his arms; and dressing himself,
he walked a considerable way up the island; but being weary,
he lay down under a cluster of trees that made an agreeable
arbour, and slept. When he awoke, he was led by curiosity
to go to the same side of the rock he had been cast upon, where
hearing a sudden noise which issued from a creek in the rock,
he went to see what occasioned it. But coming to the place
he heard the noise proceed from, he
discovered a fine large cod-fish dabbling
ina hole in the rock, where the late
storm had cast it. So having taken off
both his garters, he got into the hole
where the fish lay, and running them
through its gills he dragged it out.
Going along, he found several oysters
and coekles in the way, which the sea K
had cast up and down the rock, and having a knife about him,
he sat down and ate a few, and so refreshed himself, his spirits
being quite exhausted for want of food ; then filling his
pockets with salt, that was congealed by the sun, which he
found in the cavities of the rock, he cheerfully dragged the
fish after him to the place where he lay the night before.
Being come to it, he picked up a parcel of dry leaves, and with
his knife and flint struck fire, and kindled them : then getting
together a few sticks, made a fire presently and broiled a slice
of his fish ; and now night drawing on, he laid himself down
to sleep. Having slept comfortably that night, he awoke in
the morning pretty fresh and heasty, but as he had no covering,
and winter was approsching, he began to think of making
himself a house, He now recollected that he had a hatchet in
his hand when he was cast away, and thought probably it