At first I thought it a log, but as I laid my arms upon it, I found it, to my horror, to be a corpse of a man drowned.

I was going to cast off again, when I bethought me, here was a man whose clothes were no use to him or any one else, while I went naked.

So I dragged him to a desolate part of the shore.

He seemed to be a carrier, and having no wound or sign of violence on him, I concluded him to have fallen in the water either by accident or of his own accord.

These garments I wear are his." I shuddered as I looked at them.