At daylight they discovered a number of fishing canoes, two of which made towards them. They let them come alongside as there was only one man in each. One of them came on board and Captain Woodward put the same question to him respecting Macassar. He first said it would take thirty days to reach there and asked them to go on shore and see the Rajah. But they declined doing this, and he afterwards acknowledged that a proa could go there in two days.

They then left the canoe and sailed along the coast. At evening they perceived a proa full of Malay men set off from the shore. It was soon along side, and four or five of them jumping into the boat they nearly upset her, and thus Captain Woodward and his men were again prisoners of the Malays. They were carried to a town called Pamboon and then conducted to the Rajah's house. The Rajah demanded of them whence they came and whither they were going. Captain Woodward answered the same as before; he also told him that they must go immediately, and must not be stopped. They had now become so familiar with dangers and with captures, and were also so much nearer Macassar, than they could have expected after so many narrow escapes that they became more and more desperate and confident, from the persuasion that they should at last reach their destined port.

In the morning Captain Woodward again waited on the Rajah and begged to be sent to Macassar; telling him that the Govern or had sent for them, who would stop all his proas at Macassar if he detained them. After thinking on it a short time, he called the captain of a proa, and delivered the prisoners to him, telling him to carry them to Macassar, and if he could get any thing for them, to take it, but if not to let them go. The proa not being ready they stayed in their canoe three days, quite overcome by their many hardships and fatigues. Captain Woodward having had no shirt, the sun had burnt his shoulder so as to lay it quite bare and produce a bad sore. Here he caught cold, and was soon attacked with a violent fever, so that by the time the proa was ready to sail he was unable to stand. He was carried and laid on the deck without a mat or any kind of clothing. The cold nights and frequent showers of rain would without doubt have killed him, had he not been kept alive by the hopes of reaching Macassar, the thoughts of which kept up all their spirits.

They landed at Macassar on the 15th of June 1795, after a voyage of about nineteen days from Tomboo, and after having been two years and five months in captivity; the reckoning which Captain Woodward kept during that time, being wrong only one day

SHIPWRECK OF THE BLINDENHALL ON THE INACCESSIBLE ISLAND.

After fortune and victory had finally abandoned Napoleon on the field of Waterloo, and it had been determined by the belligerent powers that the fortress of St. Helena should be the life prison of the fallen Emperor, the British government deemed it a measure of prudence to occupy Tristan Da Cunha, situated about twenty degrees south of St. Helena, and which, in the event of any plot for a rescue, it was apprehended might have afforded a secure rendezvous, and offered considerable facilities for combined and ulterior arrangements. In pursuance of that determination, a company of artillery was stationed on Tristan da Cunha, a temporary framed barrack was erected, a fort constructed, provisions were laid up, a few milch cows and calves were landed, and the British flag waved over the melancholy waste!

About thirty-five miles from Tristan da Cunha stands, on a base of solid rock, the Inaccessible Island.

In 1820-1, the Blindenhall, free trader, bound for Bombay, partly laden with broadcloths, was prosecuting her voyage, and being driven by adverse winds and currents, more to the westward and southward than her course required, it became desirable to make Tristan da Cunha, in order to ascertain and rectify the reckoning. It was while steering to effect this purpose, that one morning a passenger, who chanced to be on deck earlier than usual, observed great quantities of sea-weed occasionally floating alongside. This excited some alarm, and a man was immediately sent aloft to keep a good look-out. The weather was then extremely hazy, though moderate; the weeds continued-all were on the alert; they shortened sail, and the boatswain piped for breakfast In less than ten minutes," Breakers a-head!" startled every soul, and in a moment all were on deck. "Breakers starboard!-breakers larboard!-breakers all around!" was the ominous cry a moment afterwards, and all was confusion. The words were scarcely uttered, wher-and before the helm was up-the ill-fated ship struck, and, after a few tremendous shocks against the sunken reef, she parted about midship. Ropes and stays were cut away-all rushed forward, as if instinctively, and had barely reached the forecastle, when the stern and quarter broke asunder with a violent crash, and sunk to rise no more. Two of the seamen miserably perished; the rest, including officers, passengers, and crew, held on about the head and bows;-the struggle was for life!

At this moment the Inaccessible Island, which till then had been veiled in o'ouds and thick mist, appeared frowning above the

haze. The wreck was more than two miles from the frightful shore. The base of the Island was still buried in impenetrable gloom In this perilous extremity one was for cutting away the anchor, which had been got up to the cat-head in time of need: another was for cutting down the foremast, (the foretopmast being already by the board). The fog totally disappeared, and the black rocky island stood in all its rugged deformity before their eyes! Suddenly the sun broke out in full splendor, as if to ex pose more clearly to the view of the sufferers their dreadful predicament. Despair was in every bosom; death, arrayed in all its terrors, seemed to hover over the wreck. But exertion was required, and Providence inspired unhoped for fortitude;-every thing that human energy could devise was effected; and the wreck on which all eagerly clung, was miraculously drifted by the tide and wind, between ledges of sunken rocks and thunder ing breakers, until after the lapse of six hours, it entered the only spot on the island where a landing was possibly practicable, for all the other parts of the coast consisted of perpendicular cliffs of granite rising from amidst deafening surf, to the height of twenty, forty, and sixty feet. As the shore was neared, a raft was prepared, and on this a few paddled for the cove;-at last the wreck drove right in; ropes were instantly thrown out; and the crew and passengers (except two who had been crushed in the wreck,) including three ladies and a female attendant, were providentially snatched from the watery grave, which a few short hours before had appeared inevitable,-and safely landed on the beach. Evening had now set in, and every effort was made to secure whatever could be saved from the wreck: bales of cloth, cases of wine, a few boxes of cheese, some hams, the carcass of the milch cow that had been washed on shore, buckets, tubs, butts, a seaman's chest (containing a tinder-box, and needles and thread), with a number of elegant mahogany turned bed-posts, part of an investment for the India market, were got on shore. The rain poured down in torrents, all hands were busily at work to procure a shelter from the weather, and with the bed-posts and broadcloths, and part of the foresail, as many tents were soon pitched as there were individuals in the island.

Drenched with the sea and with the rain,-hungry, cold, and comfortless, thousands of miles from their native land, almost beyond expectation of human succor, hope nearly annihilated, the shipwrecked voyagers retired to their tents, some devoutly to prostrate themselves in humble thankfulness before that merciful Being who had so wonderfully delivered them from destruction, others to rest after the dreadful fatigue by which they were exhausted, and some to drown their cares in wine. In the morning the wreck had gone to pieces; and planks and spars and whatever had floated in, were eagerly dragged on shore. No Booner was the unfortunate ship broken up, than, deeming them

Belves freed from the bonds of authority, many began to secure whatever came to land; and the captain, officers, passengers and crew, were now reduced to the same level, and obliged to take their turn to fetch water, and explore the island for food. The work of exploring was soon over: there was not a bird, nor a quadruped, nor a single tree to be seen! All was barren and desolate. The low parts were scattered over with stones and sand, and a few stunted weeds, reeds, fern and other plants. The top of the mountain was found to consist of a fragment of original table-land, very marshy, and full of deep sloughs, intersected with small rills of water, pure and pellucid as crystal, and a profusion of wild parsley and celery. The prospect was one dreary scene of destitution, without a single ray of hope to relieve the misery of the desponding crew. After some days the dead cow, hams and cheese were consumed, and from one end of the Island to the other, not a morsel of food could be seen. Even the celery began to fail. A few bottles of wine, which, for security, had been secreted under ground, only remained. Famine now be gan to threaten;-every stone near the sea was examined for she!l fish, but in vain. In this extremity, as the Quarter-master's wife was sitting at her tent door, with the child crying at her breast, faint and exhausted, a group of half starved seamen passed by, when one of them turning round exclaimed " by — that will make a drop of broth, if nothing else turns up!" The observation spoke daggers to the poor creature. On the return of night, as the poor hungry wretches were squatting in sullen dejection round their fires, on a sudden hundreds of birds from seaward came actually flying through the flames; many fell dead, scorched or suffocated, and thus were the sufferers again rescued for a time from the horrors which so imminently beset them. For several nights in succession, similar flocks came in, and by multiplying their fires, a considerable supply was secured.

These visits however ceased at length, and the wretched party were again exposed to the most severe privation. When their stock of wild fowl had been exhausted for more than two days, each began to fear they were now approaching that sad point of necessity, when between death and casting lots who should be sacrificed to serve for food for the rest, no alternative remains. While horror at the bare contemplation of an extremity so repulsive occupied the thoughts of all, the horizon was observed to be suddenly obscured, and presently clouds of penguins lighted on the island. The low grounds were actually covered; and before the evening was dark, the sand could not be seen for the numbers of eggs, which like a sheet of snow, lay on the surface of the earth! The penguins continued on the island four or five days, when, as if by signal, the whole took their flight, and were never seen again. A few were killed, but the flesh was so extremely rank and nauseous, that it could not be eaten. The eggs were col

ected, and dressed in all manner of ways, and supplied abundance of food for upwards of three weeks. At the expiration of that period, famine once more seemed inevitable; the third morning began to dawn upon the unfortunate company, after their stock of eggs were exhausted; they had now been without food for more than forty hours, and were fainting and dejected,-when, as though this desolate rock were really a land of miracles, a man came running up to the encampment, with the unexpected and joyful tidings, that "millions of sea-cows had came on shore!" The crew climbed over the ledge of rocks which flarked their tents, and the sight of a shoal of manatees immediately beneath them gladdened their hearts. These came in with the flood, and were left in the puddles between the broken rocks of the cove. This supply continued for two or three weeks. The flesh was mere blubber and quite unfit for food, for not a man could retain it on his stomach, but the liver was excellent, and on this they subsisted. In the meantime, the carpenter with his gang had constructed a boat, and four of the men had adventured in her for Tristan da Cunha, in hopes of ultimately extricating their fellow sufferers from their perilous situation. Unfortunately the boat was lost, whether carried away by the violence of the currents that set in between the islands, or dashed to pieces against the breakers, was never known, for no vestige of the boat or the crew was ever seen. Before the manatees, however, began to quit the shore, a second boat was launced; and in this, an officer and some seamen made a second attempt, and happily succeeded in effecting their landing, after much labor, on the island of Governor Glass. He received them most cordially, and with humanity, which neither time, nor place, nor total seclusion from the world had enfeebled or impaired; he instantly launched his boat, and, unawed by considerations of personal danger, hastened, at the risk of his life, to deliver his shipwrecked countrymen from the calamities they had so long endured. He made repeated trips, surmounted all difficulties, and fortunately succeeded in safely landing them on his own island, after they had been exposed for nearly three months to the horrors of a situation almost unparalleled in the recorded sufferings of seafaring men

THE CLIFFS OF DOVER

Dover, a seaport town of England, in the county of Kent, is Bituated on a small stream which falls into the harbor. It lies ir a valley almost surrounded by chalky cliffs, from the precipitation of some of which serious accidents have ensued. Dover consists