A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at Sea: From the Most Authentic Sources ...Whittaker, Treacher, & Company, 1833 - 316 pagina's |
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A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at Sea: From the Most Authentic ... Cyrus Redding Volledige weergave - 1833 |
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Pagina 231 - This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat, and we had only one day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining of a second supply of rain.
Pagina 233 - As we approached the land our belief had strengthened that it was Fayal. The island of Pico, which might have revealed it to us, had the weather been perfectly clear, was at this time capped with clouds, and it was some time before we were quite satisfied, having traversed for two hours a great part of the island where the steep and rocky shore refused us a landing. This circumstance was borne with much impatience, for we had flattered ourselves that we should meet with fresh water at the first part...
Pagina 231 - Matthews, quartermaster, the stoutest man in the boat, perished from hunger and cold: on the day before he had complained of want of strength in his throat, as he expressed it, to swallow his morsel, and in the night drank saltwater, grew delirious, and died without a groan.
Pagina 231 - ... drank salt water, grew delirious, and died without a groan. As it became next to a certainty that we should all perish in the same manner in a day or two, it was somewhat comfortable to reflect that dying of hunger was not so dreadful as our imaginations had represented.
Pagina 229 - I am sure no people ever endured more. In the morning the weather grew moderate, the wind having shifted to the southward, as we discovered by the sun. Having survived the night, we began to recollect ourselves, and to think of our future preservation.
Pagina 110 - Richard Topping, carpenter; Neil Bothwell and Nathaniel Chisholm, quarter-masters ; Daniel Ladova, captain's steward; Henry Sharp, the surgeon's servant; Thomas Arnold, a black, and John M'Dowal, servants to the captain ; Robert Beaseley, John Ding, Gilbert Cain, Terence Mole, Jonas Rosenbury, John Glass, — Taylor, and Hendrick Scantz, seamen ; John Yets, midshipman ; John Lister, Ralph Smith, and Edward Dysoy, matrosses.
Pagina 294 - Burns, mounted them on the bare backs of the camels behind the hump, by the hair of which they were obliged to steady themselves and hold on, without knowing whither they were going, or if I should ever see them again. I took an affectionate leave of them. This their Arab masters permitted me to do without interruption, and could not help showing at this scene, that the feelings of humanity were not totally...
Pagina 226 - The carpenter assured me that the ship could not swim long, and proposed making rafts to float the ship's company, whom it was not in my power to encourage any longer with a prospect of safety.
Pagina 229 - ... an hour we lost sight of the ship. Before it was dark, a blanket was discovered in the boat. This was immediately bent to one of the...
Pagina 230 - One biscuit divided into twelve morsels, for breakfast, and the same for dinner ; the neck of a bottle broken off, with the cork in, served for a glass, and this, filled with water, was the allowance for twenty-four hours for each man.