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Streights of La Maire

ourselves with laying out our unfortunate companions upon a bed of boughs & covering them over with boughs also as thick as we were able & thus we left them hopeless of ever seeing them again alive which indeed we never did

In these employments we had spent an hour & a half expos'd to the most penetrating cold I ever felt as well as continual snow & Peter Briscoe another servant of mine began now to complain & before we came to the fire became very ill but got there at last almost dead with cold.

Now might our situation truely be calld terrible of twelve our original number 2 were already past all hopes one more was so ill that tho he was with us I had little hopes of his being able to walk in the morning & another very likely to relapse into his fitts either before we set out or in the course of our journey we were distant from the ship we did not know how far we knew only that we had been the greatest part of a day in walking it through pathless woods provision we had none but one vulture which had been shot while we were out, &
 

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