Three more planks were greatly damaged, and there was something very extraordinary in the appearance of the breaches.

Not a splinter was to be seen, but all was as smooth as if the whole had been cut away by an instrument.

It was a peculiarly happy circumstance, that the timbers were here very close, since otherwise the ship could not possibly have been saved.

Now also it was that the fragment of rock was discovered, which, by sticking in the leak of the vessel had been such a providential instrument of her preservation.
On the same day, some of the people who had been sent to shoot pigeons for the sick, and who had discovered many Indian houses, and a fine stream of fresh water reported at their return, that they had seen an animal as large as a greyhound, of a slender make, of a mouse colour, and extremely swift.

As the lieutenant was walking, on the morning of the 24th, at a little distance from the ship, he had an opportunity of seeing an animal of the same kind.