208 A FEARFUL SURPRISE.

any other accident. But now I come to a new scene of my
life.

It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was

 

“T sTOOD LIKE ONE THUNDERSTRUCK, OR AS IE I HAD SEEN AN APPARITION.”

exceedingly surprised with the print of a man’s naked foot on the
shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like
one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened,
T looked round ine; I could hear nothing, nor see anything. I