The Eventful History of the Mutiny And Piratical Seizure of Hms Bounty Its
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These advantages certainly preserved our lives ; and small as the supply was, I am very sensible how much it alleviated our distresses. Before this time nature must have sunk under the ex- tremes of hunger and fatigue. Even in our present situation, we were most deplorable objects, but the hopes of a speedy relief kept up our spirits. 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 man...uscript journal, he adds, ' This, perhaps, does not permit me to be a proper judge on a story of miserable people like i 2 116 THE OPEN-BOAT XAA'IGATIOX. us being at last driven to the necessity of destroy- ing one another for food- but, if I mav be O B * 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". ' 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.
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