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So
,
then
,
as
William
Guy
told
us
,
not
an
incident
occurred
to
break
the
monotony
of
that
existence
of
eleven
years
—
not
even
the
reappearance
of
the
islanders
,
who
were
kept
away
from
Tsalal
by
superstitious
terror
.
No
danger
had
threatened
them
during
all
that
time
;
but
,
of
course
,
as
it
became
more
and
more
prolonged
,
they
lost
the
hope
of
ever
being
rescued
.
At
first
,
with
the
return
of
the
fine
season
,
when
the
sea
was
once
more
open
,
they
had
thought
it
possible
that
a
ship
would
be
sent
in
search
of
the
Jane
.
But
after
four
or
five
years
they
relinquished
all
hope
.
There
is
no
need
for
dwelling
on
this
period
,
which
extends
from
the
year
1828
to
the
year
1839
.
The
winters
were
hard
.
The
summer
did
indeed
extend
its
beneficent
influence
to
the
islands
of
the
Tsalal
group
,
but
the
cold
season
,
with
its
attendant
snows
,
rains
,
and
tempests
,
spared
them
none
of
its
severity
.
During
seven
months
Captain
William
Guy
had
not
lost
one
of
those
who
had
come
with
him
safe
and
sound
out
of
the
trap
set
for
them
at
Klock
-
Klock
,
and
this
was
due
,
no
doubt
,
to
their
robust
constitutions
,
remarkable
power
of
endurance
,
and
great
strength
of
character
.
Alas
!
misfortune
was
making
ready
to
fall
on
them
.
The
month
of
May
had
come
—
it
corresponds
in
those
regions
to
the
month
of
November
in
northern
lands
—
and
the
ice
-
packs
which
the
current
carried
towards
the
north
were
beginning
to
drift
past
Tsalal
.
One
day
,
one
of
the
seven
men
failed
to
return
to
the
cavern
.
They
called
,
they
waited
,
they
searched
for
him
.
All
was
in
vain
.
He
did
not
reappear
;
no
doubt
he
had
been
drowned
.
He
was
never
more
seen
by
his
fellow
-
exiles
.
This
man
was
Patterson
,
the
faithful
companion
of
William
Guy
.
Now
,
what
William
Guy
did
not
know
,
but
we
told
him
,
was
that
Patterson
—
under
what
circumstances
none
would
ever
learn
—
had
been
carried
away
on
the
surface
of
an
ice
-
block
,
where
he
died
of
hunger
.
And
on
that
ice
-
block
,
which
had
travelled
so
far
as
Prince
Edward
Island
,
the
boatswain
had
discovered
the
corpse
of
the
unfortunate
man
almost
decomposed
by
the
action
of
the
warmer
waters
.
When
Captain
Len
Guy
told
his
brother
of
the
finding
of
the
body
of
Patterson
,
and
how
it
was
owing
to
the
notes
in
his
pocket
-
book
that
the
Halbrane
had
been
enabled
to
proceed
towards
the
antarctic
seas
,
William
Guy
hid
his
face
in
his
hands
and
wept
.
Other
misfortunes
followed
upon
this
one
.
Five
months
after
the
disappearance
of
Patterson
,
in
the
middle
of
October
,
Tsalal
Island
was
laid
waste
from
coast
to
coast
by
an
earthquake
,
which
destroyed
the
southwestern
group
almost
entirely
.
William
Guy
and
his
companions
must
soon
have
perished
on
the
barren
land
,
which
no
longer
could
give
them
food
,
had
not
the
means
of
leaving
its
coast
,
now
merely
an
expanse
of
tumbled
rocks
,
been
afforded
them
in
an
almost
miraculous
manner
.
Two
days
after
the
earthquake
,
the
current
carried
ashore
within
a
few
hundred
yards
of
their
cavern
a
boat
which
had
drifted
from
the
island
group
on
the
south
-
west
.
Without
the
delay
of
even
one
day
,
the
boat
was
laden
with
as
much
of
the
remaining
provisions
as
it
could
contain
,
and
the
six
men
embarked
in
it
,
bidding
adieu
for
ever
to
the
now
uninhabitable
island
.
