I forgot to add, that I was fortunate enough to discover a stream of fresh water, running into the sea; it was the same which runs past this house, and which conducted me here.

The first day we suffered greatly from thirst, but on the second we met with the stream which saved us.

I will not tire you by relating day by day our sad life; every one was the same, and took away by degrees every hope from me.

As long as I dared to indulge any, I could not bear to leave the shore; but at last it became insupportable to me.

I was worn out with gazing continually on that boundless horizon, and that moving crystal which had swallowed up my hopes.