They fortunately fell in with a cask of water, washed up on the beach, from which they filled their canteens, roasted the fish and started on again, but made no distance.

This lasted for several days.

They subsisted by picking up a few shellfish and some dead birds which had been washed ashore, and they ate a sort of cane that grows near the beach, and the Hottentot fig.
DEATH OF MR.

SMITH.
Mr.Smith now gradually became exhausted, and at last one evening sat down on a bank, and said he could not go on.

He was behind the party with Ruston, who thought he was dying, and went on and told the other men.