![]() ![]() I had no shirt, for it had rotted off by bits. I had been three days at the oar without any kind of nourishment except the wretched root above mentioned. We passed this night as we had frequently done under a tree but what we suffered at this time is not easy to be expressed. Here was plenty of wood, but nothing to be got for sustenance. The next day brought us to the carrying place. We laboured all next day against the stream, and fared as we had done the day before. Knowing the difficulties they had to encounter here, they had provided themselves with some seal but we had not a morsel to eat, after the heavy fatigues of the day, excepting a sort of root we saw the Indians make use of, which was very disagreeable to the taste. The Indians were little better off than we, as there was no wood here to make their wigwams so that all they could do was to prop up the bark, which they carry in the bottom of their canoes, and shelter themselves as well as they could to the leeward of it. At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect swamp and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained excessively. ![]() We rowed up the river four or five leagues, and then took into a branch of it that ran first to the eastward and then to the northward : here it became much narrower, and the stream excessively rapid, so that we gained but little way, though we wrought very hard. The land here was very low and sandy, and something like the mouth of a river which discharged itself into the sea, and which had been taken no notice of by us before, as it was so shallow that the Indians were obliged to take every thing out of their canoes and carry it over land. After relating the barbarity of the Indian Cacique to his child, he proceeds thus : - " A day or two after, we put to sea again, and crossed the great bay I mentioned we had been at the bottom of, when we first hawled away to the westward. The following picture of his own distress, given by Byron in his simple and interesting Narrative, justifies the description in p. And such thy strength-inspiring aid that bore The hardy Byron to his native shore. ![]()
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