w were riding it out comfortable--that
is, for us; women are all sick.

Land to the eastward, small island.

_60 days out._ Land still in sight; gets bigger; suppose the water is
going down; nothing to do now but eat, sleep, and hunt for that
pug--Still riding at the sea anchor.

_100 days out._ Pug must be dead--More land showing up.

_150 days out. Noon_--Driving on a lee shore stern foremost; getting
anchors ready; _sundown_--let go both anchors as we got close in;
dragged, and here we are, with every sea making a clean sweep over us;
ark won't last long; getting out liferaft and turning animals loose.

_Next morning._ Floated ashore all right; ark is breaking up and
animals swimming in; last to come were that missing pug and seven
half-grown pups; submit to the will of Providence, but still think
women had the durned brute hid in the lower hold.

_Next day._ Poor place to live on this island--Nothing grown, but a
grapevine I found on the beach; will take care of it; it means grapes,
and grapes mean juice, and it's been a long time between drinks--Ham is
quite useful now; takes a deep interest in the vine and helps me 'tend
it.

_Month later._ Grapevine is doing well.

_Four months later._ Grapes appearing.

_Two months later._ Picked the grapes; now for some wine--Ham is a
model boy; did him good to rope's-end him.

_Five months later._ Wine has worked; will serve grog to-morrow and
celebrate the anniversary of our shipwreck.

_Next day._ (The manuscript of this last day's entry is obscure, and so
incoherent, as to make it strongly probable that Captain Noah served
the grog as indicated, and that he wrote while under the influence of
the same. There are, however, some legible references to certain "pugs"
which would go to show that he still had those animals in mind and
perhaps regretted his failure to effect their extinction.--Translator.)

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