Mrs.Kear, after a most distressing illness, through which her young companion tended her with the most devoted care, has breathed her last.

A few deep sighs and all was over, and I doubt whether the sufferer was ever conscious of the peril of, her situation.
The night passed on without further incident.

Towards morning I touched the dead woman's hand, and it was cold and stiff.

The corpse could not remain any longer on the main-top, and after Miss Herbey and I had carefully wrapped the garments about it, with a few short prayers the body of the first victim of our miseries was committed to the deep.
As the sea closed over the body I heard one of the men in the shrouds say,-- "There goes a carcass that we shall be sorry we have thrown away!" I looked round sharply.

It was Owen who had spoken, But horrible as were his words, the conviction was forced upon my mind that the day could not be far distant when we must want for food..