14° _ THE FIRST VOYAGE OF

caused her sails to be spread, and pursued his
voyage with those who had embarked, not re-
garding such as had been submerged; and I
ceased not to look at that vessel until it was
concealed from my eye. J made sure of de-
struction, and night came upon me while I was
in this state; but I remained so a day and a
night, and the wind and the waves aided me
until the bowl came to a stoppage with me
under a high island, whereon were trees over-
hanging the sea. SoTI laid hold upon a branch
of a lofty tree, and clung to it, after I had been
at the point of destruction; and I kept hold
upon it until I landed on the island, when I
found my legs benumbed, and saw marks of
the nibbling of fish upon their hams, of which
I had been insensible by reason of the violence
of the anguish and fatigue I was suffering.

I threw myself upon the island like one
dead, and was unconscious of my existence, and
drowned in my stupefaction; and I ceased not
to remain in this condition until the next day.
The sun having then risen upon me, I awoke
upon the island, and found that my feet were
swollen, and that I had become reduced to the
state in which I then was. Awhile I dragged
myself along in a sitting posture, and then I