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deck, with her back up against the sides, between two chairs,
which were lashed fast, and her head sunk between her shoul-
ders, like a corpse, though not quite dead. My mate said all
he could to revive and encourage her, and with a spoon put
some broth into her mouth. She opened her lips, and lifted up
one hand, but could not speak: yet she understood what he
said, and made signs to him, intimating that it was too late for
her, but pointed to her child, as if she would have said they
should take care of him. However, the mate, who was exceed-
ingly moved at the sight, endeavored to get some of the broth
into her mouth, and, as he said, got two or three spoonfuls
down ; though I question whether he could be sure of it or not ;
but it was too late, and she died the same night.

The youth, who was preserved at the price of his most
affectionate mother’s life, was not so far gone; yet he lay
in a cabin bed, as one stretched out, with hardly any life
left in him. He had a piece of an old glove in his mouth, -
having eaten up the rest of it: however, being young, and
having more strength than his mother, the mate got something
down his throat, and he began sensibly to revive ; though by
giving him, some time after, but two or three spoonfuls ex-
traordinary, he was very sick, and brought it up again.

But the next care was the poor maid : she lay all alone upon
the deck, hard by her mistress, and just like one that had fallen
down with an apoplexy, and struggled for life. Her limbs were
distorted ; one of her hands was clasped round the frame of
the chair, and she gripped it so hard that we could not easily
make her let it go; her other arm lay over her head, and her
féet lay both together, set fast against the frame of the cabin
table ; in short, she lay just like one in the agonies of death,
and yet she was alive too.

The poor creature was not only starved with hunger, and
terrified with the thoughts of death, but, as the men told us
afterwards, was broken-hearted for her mistress, whom she saw
dying for two or three days before, and whom she loved most
tenderly.

We knew not what to do with this poor girl ; for when our
surgeon, who was aman of very great knowledge and experience,
had, with great application, recovered her as to life, he had her
upon his hands still ; for she was little less than distracted for
a considerable time after.

Whoever shall read these memorandums must be desired
to consider, that visits at sea are not like a journey into the
country, where sometimes people stay a week or a fortnight at