AN ATTACK OF AGUE. 1389

I continued this work every day to the 15th of June, except the
time necessary to get food, which I always appointed, during this
part of my employment, to be when the tide was up, that I might be
ready when it was ebbed out; and by this time I had gotten timber
and plank and iron-work enough to have builded a good boat, if
I had known how; and also, I got at several times and in several
pieces, near one hundredweight of the sheet lead.

June 16. Going down to the seaside, I found a large tortoise
or turtle. This was the first I had seen; which, it seems, was only
my misfortune, not any defect of the place or scarcity: for had
I happened to be on the other side of the island, I might have
had hundreds of them every day, as I found afterwards; but, per-
haps, had paid dear enough for them.

June 17. I spent in cooking the turtle. I found in her three-
score eggs; and her flesh was to me at that time the most savoury
and pleasant that ever I tasted in my life, having had no flesh, but
of goats and fowls, since I landed in this horrid place.

June 18. Rained all day, and I stayed within. I thought at
this time the rain felt cold, and I was something chilly, which I
knew was not usual in that latitude.

June 19. Very ill, and shivering, as if the weather had been
cold.

June 20. No rest all night, violent pains in my head, and
feverish.

June 21. Very ill. Frightened almost to death with the appre-
hensions of my sad condition—to be sick and no help. Prayed to
God for the first time since the storm off of Hull; but scarce knew
what I said, or why, my thoughts being all confused.

June 22. A little better, but under dreadful apprehensions of
sickness.

June 23. Very bad again, cold and shivering, and then a violent
headache.

June 24. Much better.

June 25. An ague, very violent. The fit held me seven hours,
cold fit and hot, with faint sweats after it.

June 26. Better; and having no victuals to eat, took my gun,
but found myself very weak. However, I killed a she-goat, and