Even when one of the largest was struck with an axe by Peters and much wounded, he persisted in his attempts to push in where we were.

A cloud came up at dusk, but, to our extreme anguish, passed over without discharging itself.

It is quite impossible to conceive our sufferings from thirst at this period.

We passed a sleepless night, both on this account and through dread of the sharks.
August 3.

No prospect of relief, and the brig lying still more and more along, so that now we could not maintain a footing upon deck at all.
Busied ourselves in securing our wine and tortoise-meat, so that we might not lose them in the event of our rolling over.