Two of their number perished miserably.* The survivors, on the seventh day, were found and taken up by a passing vessel, nourished carefully and finally restored to their homes.
* Weems represents the captain and mate, as throwing themselves overboard in a state of phrenzy, and there is nothing improbable or unnatural in the statement.

Privation of food, the use of salt water, and exposure in an open boat to a burning sun, might very well produce such an effect.
The only difficulty, however, consists in the simple fact that we have no other authority for the statement.

James is silent on the point, and contents himself with simply stating the death of two of the crew.

Weems, however, adds that of two others, whose end receives, as usual, quite a dramatic finish at his hands.

He suffers none to live but "little Marion", and, in the exuberance of his imagination, actually goes so far as to describe the particular food, "chocolate and turtle broth", by which the youthful hero is recruited and recovered.