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My
sad
lot
and
the
memories
of
the
loved
ones
at
Elkton
threw
me
into
a
melancholy
,
so
that
I
often
lost
my
recollection
for
hours
at
a
time
.
This
was
a
mercy
,
for
it
veiled
me
from
my
sufferings
that
else
would
have
killed
me
.
In
the
night
I
was
roused
by
the
beat
of
rain
,
and
I
crawled
from
hole
to
hole
,
lapping
up
the
rain
or
licking
it
from
the
rocks
.
Brackish
it
was
,
but
drinkable
.
It
was
what
saved
me
,
for
,
toward
morning
,
I
awoke
to
find
myself
in
a
profuse
perspiration
and
quite
free
of
all
delirium
.
Then
came
the
sun
,
the
first
time
since
my
stay
on
the
island
,
and
I
spread
most
of
my
garments
to
dry
.
Of
water
I
drank
my
careful
fill
,
and
I
calculated
there
was
ten
days
'
supply
if
carefully
husbanded
.
It
was
amazing
how
rich
I
felt
with
this
vast
wealth
of
brackish
water
.
And
no
great
merchant
,
with
all
his
ships
returned
from
prosperous
voyages
,
his
warehouses
filled
to
the
rafters
,
his
strong-boxes
overflowing
,
could
have
felt
as
wealthy
as
did
I
when
I
discovered
,
cast
up
on
the
rocks
,
the
body
of
a
seal
that
had
been
dead
for
many
days
.
Nor
did
I
fail
,
first
,
to
thank
God
on
my
knees
for
this
manifestation
of
His
ever-unfailing
kindness
.
The
thing
was
clear
to
me
:
God
had
not
intended
I
should
die
.
From
the
very
first
He
had
not
so
intended
.
I
knew
the
debilitated
state
of
my
stomach
,
and
I
ate
sparingly
in
the
knowledge
that
my
natural
voracity
would
surely
kill
me
did
I
yield
myself
to
it
.
Never
had
sweeter
morsels
passed
my
lips
,
and
I
make
free
to
confess
that
I
shed
tears
of
joy
,
again
and
again
,
at
contemplation
of
that
putrefied
carcass
.
My
heart
of
hope
beat
strong
in
me
once
more
.
Carefully
I
preserved
the
portions
of
the
carcass
remaining
.
Carefully
I
covered
my
rock
cisterns
with
flat
stones
so
that
the
sun
's
rays
might
not
evaporate
the
precious
fluid
and
in
precaution
against
some
upspringing
of
wind
in
the
night
and
the
sudden
flying
of
spray
.
Also
I
gathered
me
tiny
fragments
of
seaweed
and
dried
them
in
the
sun
for
an
easement
between
my
poor
body
and
the
rough
rocks
whereon
I
made
my
lodging
.
And
my
garments
were
dry
--
the
first
time
in
days
;
so
that
I
slept
the
heavy
sleep
of
exhaustion
and
of
returning
health
.
When
I
awoke
to
a
new
day
I
was
another
man
.
The
absence
of
the
sun
did
not
depress
me
,
and
I
was
swiftly
to
learn
that
God
,
not
forgetting
me
while
I
slumbered
,
had
prepared
other
and
wonderful
blessings
for
me
.
I
would
have
fain
rubbed
my
eyes
and
looked
again
,
for
,
as
far
as
I
could
see
,
the
rocks
bordering
upon
the
ocean
were
covered
with
seals
.
There
were
thousands
of
them
,
and
in
the
water
other
thousands
disported
themselves
,
while
the
sound
that
went
up
from
all
their
throats
was
prodigious
and
deafening
.
I
knew
it
when
:
I
saw
it
--
meat
lay
there
for
the
taking
,
meat
sufficient
for
a
score
of
ships
'
companies
.
I
directly
seized
my
oar
--
than
which
there
was
no
other
stick
of
wood
on
the
island
--
and
cautiously
advanced
upon
all
that
immensity
of
provender
.
It
was
quickly
guessed
by
me
that
these
creatures
of
the
sea
were
unacquainted
with
man
.
They
betrayed
no
signals
of
timidity
at
my
approach
,
and
I
found
it
a
boy
's
task
to
rap
them
on
the
head
with
the
oar
.
And
when
I
had
so
killed
my
third
and
my
fourth
,
I
went
immediately
and
strangely
mad
.
Indeed
quite
bereft
was
I
of
all
judgment
as
I
slew
and
slew
and
continued
to
slay
.
For
the
space
of
two
hours
I
toiled
unceasingly
with
the
oar
till
I
was
ready
to
drop
.
What
excess
of
slaughter
I
might
have
been
guilty
of
I
know
not
,
for
at
the
end
of
that
time
,
as
if
by
a
signal
,
all
the
seals
that
still
lived
threw
themselves
into
the
water
and
swiftly
disappeared
.
