CHAPTER VI.

The boat, two hundred leagues from land, makes no way, but drives more to sea by the wind--The people live nine days at quarter allowance--Four die with hunger the twelfth day--Five more the fourteenth day--On the fifteenth they eat one just dead--Want of water excessive--They spy a sail--Are taken up--Work their passage to the African shore--One sent on a secret expedition--Are way-laid, taken, made slaves, and sent up the country