For my own part, incredible as it may appear, I felt neither extreme hunger nor thirst.

My allowance contented me, knowing that I could have no more.' In his manuscript journal, he adds, 'This, perhaps, does not permit me to be a proper judge on a story of miserable people like us being at last driven to the necessity of destroying one another for food--but, if I may be allowed, I deny the fact in its greatest extent.

I say, I do not believe that, among us, such a thing could happen, but death through famine would be received in the same way as any mortal disease.'[10] On the 5th a booby was caught by the hand, the blood of which was divided among three of the men who were weakest, and the bird kept for next day's dinner; and on the evening of the 6th the allowance for supper was recommenced, according to a promise made when it had been discontinued.

On the 7th, after a miserably wet and cold night, nothing more could be afforded than the usual allowance for breakfast; but at dinner each person had the luxury of an ounce of dried clams, which consumed all that remained.

The sea was running high and breaking over the boat the whole of this day.