Those Who Were Got
On The Little Island Were Not In A Much Better Condition, For, Upon
Taking An Account Of Their Water, They Found They Had Not Above 40
Gallons For 40 People, And On The Larger Island, Where There Were
120, Their Stock Was Still Less.
Those on the little island began
to murmur, and to complain of their officers, because they did not
go
In search of water, in the islands that were within sight of
them, and they represented the necessity of this to Captain Pelsart,
who agreed to their request, but insisted before he went to
communicate his design to the rest of the people; they consented to
this, but not till the captain had declared that, without the
consent of the company on the large is land, he would, rather than
leave them, go and perish on board the ship. When they were got
pretty near the shore, he who commanded the boat told the captain
that if he had anything to say, he must cry out to the people, for
that they would not suffer him to go out of the boat. The captain
immediately attempted to throw himself overboard in order to swim to
the island. Those who were in the boat prevented him; and all that
he could obtain from them was, to throw on shore his table-book, in
which line wrote a line or two to inform them that he was gone in
the skiff to look for water in the adjacent islands.
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