JUNE 17. - I spent in cooking the turtle. I found in her three-
score eggs; and her flesh was to me, at that time, the most savoury
and pleasant that ever I tasted in my life, having had no flesh,
but of goats and fowls, since I landed in this horrid place.
JUNE 18. - Rained all day, and I stayed within. I thought at this
time the rain felt cold, and I was something chilly; which I knew
was not usual in that latitude.
JUNE 19. - Very ill, and shivering, as if the weather had been
cold.
JUNE 20. - No rest all night; violent pains in my head, and
feverish.
JUNE 21. - Very ill; frighted almost to death with the
apprehensions of my sad condition - to be sick, and no help.
Prayed to God, for the first time since the storm off Hull, but
scarce knew what I said, or why, my thoughts being all confused.
JUNE 22. - A little better; but under dreadful apprehensions of
sickness.
JUNE 22. - Very bad again; cold and shivering, and then a violent
headache.
JUNE 24. - Much better.
JUNE 25. - An ague very violent; the fit held me seven hours; cold
fit and hot, with faint sweats after it.
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