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“1 WAS UNABLE TO STIR IT UP AGAIN, OR GET UNDER 17.”

might with much trouble cut it down, if after I might be able with
my tools to hew and dub the outside into the proper shape of a
boat, and burn or cut out the inside to make it hollow, so to make
a boat of it,—if, after all this, I must leave it just there where I
found it, and was not able to launch it into the water.

One would have thought I could not have had the least reflee-
tion upon my mind of my circumstance, while 1 was making this
boat, but I should have immediately thought how T should get it
into the sea. But my thoughts were so intent upon my voyage
over the sea in it, that I never once considered how I should get it
off of the land; and it was really in its own nature more easy for
me to guide it over forty-five miles of sea, than about forty-five
fathom of land, where it lay, to set it afloat in the water.

I went to work upon this boat the most like a fool that ever
man did who had any of his senses awake. I pleased myself with
the design, without determining whether I was ever able to under: