We expected every moment to see him breathe his last.
He was frightfully emaciated; so much so that, although he weighed a hundred and twenty-seven pounds upon his leaving Nantucket, he now did not weigh more than forty or fifty at the farthest.

His eyes were sunk far in his head, being scarcely perceptible, and the skin of his cheeks hung so loosely as to prevent his masticating any food, or even swallowing any liquid, without great difficulty.
August 1.

A continuance of the same calm weather, with an oppressively hot sun.

Suffered exceedingly from thirst, the water in the jug being absolutely putrid and swarming with vermin.

We contrived, nevertheless, to swallow a portion of it by mixing it with wine; our thirst, however, was but little abated.