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I
found
the
number
of
slain
seals
to
exceed
two
hundred
,
and
I
was
shocked
and
frightened
because
of
the
madness
of
slaughter
that
had
possessed
me
.
I
had
sinned
by
wanton
wastefulness
,
and
after
I
had
duly
refreshed
myself
with
this
good
wholesome
food
,
I
set
about
as
well
as
I
could
to
make
amends
.
But
first
,
ere
the
great
task
began
,
I
returned
thanks
to
that
Being
through
whose
mercy
I
had
been
so
miraculously
preserved
.
Thereupon
I
laboured
until
dark
,
and
after
dark
,
skinning
the
seals
,
cutting
the
meat
into
strips
,
and
placing
it
upon
the
tops
of
rocks
to
dry
in
the
sun
.
Also
,
I
found
small
deposits
of
salt
in
the
nooks
and
crannies
of
the
rocks
on
the
weather
side
of
the
island
.
This
I
rubbed
into
the
meat
as
a
preservative
.
Four
days
I
so
toiled
,
and
in
the
end
was
foolishly
proud
before
God
in
that
no
scrap
of
all
that
supply
of
meat
had
been
wasted
.
The
unremitting
labour
was
good
for
my
body
,
which
built
up
rapidly
by
means
of
this
wholesome
diet
in
which
I
did
not
stint
myself
.
Another
evidence
of
God
's
mercy
;
never
,
in
the
eight
years
I
spent
on
that
barren
islet
,
was
there
so
long
a
spell
of
clear
weather
and
steady
sunshine
as
in
the
period
immediately
following
the
slaughter
of
the
seals
.
Months
were
to
pass
ore
ever
the
seals
revisited
my
island
.
But
in
the
meantime
I
was
anything
but
idle
.
I
built
me
a
hut
of
stone
,
and
,
adjoining
it
,
a
storehouse
for
my
cured
meat
.
The
hut
I
roofed
with
many
sealskins
,
so
that
it
was
fairly
water-proof
.
But
I
could
never
cease
to
marvel
,
when
the
rain
beat
on
that
roof
,
that
no
less
than
a
king
's
ransom
in
the
London
fur
market
protected
a
castaway
sailor
from
the
elements
.
I
was
quickly
aware
of
the
importance
of
keeping
some
kind
of
reckoning
of
time
,
without
which
I
was
sensible
that
I
should
soon
lose
all
knowledge
of
the
day
of
the
week
,
and
be
unable
to
distinguish
one
from
the
other
,
and
not
know
which
was
the
Lord
's
day
.
I
remembered
back
carefully
to
the
reckoning
of
time
kept
in
the
longboat
by
Captain
Nicholl
;
and
carefully
,
again
and
again
,
to
make
sure
beyond
any
shadow
of
uncertainty
,
I
went
over
the
tale
of
the
days
and
nights
I
had
spent
on
the
island
.
Then
,
by
seven
stones
outside
my
hut
,
I
kept
my
weekly
calendar
.
In
one
place
on
the
oar
I
cut
a
small
notch
for
each
week
,
and
in
another
place
on
the
oar
I
notched
the
months
,
being
duly
careful
indeed
,
to
reckon
in
the
additional
days
to
each
month
over
and
beyond
the
four
weeks
.
Thus
I
was
enabled
to
pay
due
regard
to
the
Sabbath
.
As
the
only
mode
of
worship
I
could
adopt
,
I
carved
a
short
hymn
,
appropriate
to
my
situation
,
on
the
oar
,
which
I
never
failed
to
chant
on
the
Sabbath
.
God
,
in
His
all-mercy
,
had
not
forgotten
me
;
nor
did
I
,
in
those
eight
years
,
fail
at
all
proper
times
to
remember
God
.
It
was
astonishing
the
work
required
,
under
such
circumstances
,
to
supply
one
's
simple
needs
of
food
and
shelter
.
Indeed
,
I
was
rarely
idle
,
that
first
year
.
The
hut
,
itself
a
mere
lair
of
rocks
,
nevertheless
took
six
weeks
of
my
time
.
The
tardy
curing
and
the
endless
scraping
of
the
sealskins
,
so
as
to
make
them
soft
and
pliable
for
garments
,
occupied
my
spare
moments
for
months
and
months
.
Then
there
was
the
matter
of
my
water
supply
.
After
any
heavy
gale
,
the
flying
spray
salted
my
saved
rainwater
,
so
that
at
times
I
was
grievously
put
to
live
through
till
fresh
rains
fell
unaccompanied
by
high
winds
.
Aware
that
a
continual
dropping
will
wear
a
stone
,
I
selected
a
large
stone
,
fine
and
tight
of
texture
and
,
by
means
of
smaller
stones
,
I
proceeded
to
pound
it
hollow
.
In
five
weeks
of
most
arduous
toil
I
managed
thus
to
make
a
jar
which
I
estimated
to
hold
a
gallon
and
a
half
.
Later
,
I
similarly
made
a
four-gallon
jar
.
