hining right into my eyes roused me and
made me turn out, although I took care not to wake the rest.

"I felt thirsty now no longer but hungry as a hunter, and started up to
see if I could find anything to eat. I thought there might be cocoa-
nuts about, for these when they are old, as you generally only see them
in England, contain, instead of juice, or `milk' as they term it in the
tropics, which the nut is filled with when young, a valuable amount of
solid matter, which is not only tasty to eat but nourishing as well,
being mostly a kind of vegetable fat or oil. However, on looking up at
the trees over our sheltering place I could see no cocoa-nuts; while a
hunt amongst the bushes disclosed nothing there in the fruit line
either. I saw some tamarind trees certainly, but the beans on these
were only just sprouting out from the blossom; and although I gathered
some of these and chewed them, thinking they might have an acid taste
which would alleviate thirst if it did not allay hunger, they were so
nasty that I had to spit them out again and wash my mouth out with sea-
water to take away their flavour, going down to the shore for this
purpose, as well as to see if there was anything eatable there to pick
up.

"Presently, Magellan woke up too, and then the others, all suffering
like myself from hunger. One chap said he could eat his boots; but then
we had all pulled those off when the pinnace was labouring in the sea
before she foundered. I told them about my unsuccessful try for cocoa-
nuts and fruit, so they were perfectly satisfied that if I failed it
would be useless for them to worry themselves by searching; and after a
time chatting together and planning out that, next day, we would try to
cross the mountains to Majunga, we all settled down to sleep again after
the sun had gone down in the west--when night came on suddenly, without
any twilight the same as you have here, enveloping the forest and all
our surroundings in a darkness so dense that it could almost be felt, no
moon rising or any stars peeping out until long after we were snoring,
that is, if any at all came out then.

"The next morning, we made a terrible discovery.

"Through some carelessness or other in putting back the bung-stopper of
the barrico, or from one of the chaps getting up in the night and
`sucking the monkey' while we were all asleep, every drop of water had
disappeared from the vessel, and although we all awoke thirsty, the same