These People Were Black Savages, Quite Naked, Not Having So
Much As Any Covering About Their Middle.
The sailors, finding no
hopes of water on all the coast, swam on board again, much hurt and
wounded
By their being beat by the waves upon the rocks; and as soon
as they were on board, they weighed anchor, and continued their
course along the shore, in hopes of finding some better landing-
place.
On the 25th, in the morning, they discovered a cape, from the point
of which there ran a ridge of rocks a mile into the sea, and behind
it another ridge of rocks. They ventured between them, as the sea
was pretty calm; but finding there was no passage, they soon
returned. About noon they saw another opening, and the sea being
still very smooth, they entered it, though the passage was very
dangerous, inasmuch as they had but two feet water, and the bottom
full of stones, the coast appearing a flat sand for about a mile.
As soon as they got on shore they fell to digging in the sand, but
the water that came into their wells was so brackish that they could
not drink it, though they were on the very point of choking for
thirst. At last, in the hollows of the rocks, they met with
considerable quantities of rain-water, which was a great relief to
them, since they had been for some days at no better allowance than
a pint a-piece.
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