For another twenty-four hours it was barely possible that I might exist without water--for a longer time I could not do so.

During the first portion of my imprisonment I had made free use of the cordials with which Augustus had supplied me, but they only served to excite fever, without in the least degree assuaging thirst.

I had now only about a gill left, and this was of a species of strong peach liqueur at which my stomach revolted.

The sausages were entirely consumed; of the ham nothing remained but a small piece of the skin; and all the biscuit, except a few fragments of one, had been eaten by Tiger.

To add to my troubles, I found that my headache was increasing momentarily, and with it the species of delirium which had distressed me more or less since my first falling asleep.