humanity; but the crew were many of them so weak, as to be unable to walk. One of the persons, a quarter-master, died in the boat. Captain Inglefield and the survivors were afterwards tried by a court martial, and acquitted of all blame on the melancholy occasion. SHIPWRECKED MARINERS SAVED In June, 1695, the ship Mary, commanded by Captain Jones, with a crew of twenty-two men, sailed from Spithead for the West Indies; and contrary to the remonstrances of one Adams on board, the master steered a course which brought the vessel on the Caskets, a large body of rocks, two or three leagues S. E. of Guernsey. It was about three o'clock in the morning, when the ship struck against the high rock, all the bows were stove in; the water entered most rapidly, and in less than half an hour, she sunk. Those of the crew who were in the forepart of the ship, got upon the rock; but the rest, to the number of eight, who were in the hind part, sunk directly, and were no more seen. Adams and thirteen more, who were on the rock, had not time to save any thing out of the ship for their subsistence; and the place afforded them none, nor even any shelter from the heat of the sun. The first day they went down the rock, and gathered limpets, but finding that they encreased their thirst, they eat no more of them. The third day they killed the dog which had swam to the rock, and eat him, or rather chewed his flesh, to allay their thirst, which was excessive. They passed nine days without any other food, and without any prospect of relief; their flesh wasted, their sinews shrunk, and their mouths parched with thirst; on the tenth day, they agreed to cast lots, that two of the company should die, in order to preserve the rest a little longer. When the two men were marked out, they were willing and ready to stab themselves, as had been agreed on with horrible ingenuity, in order that those who were living might put a tobacco pipe into the incision, and each in his turn suck so many gulps of blood to quench his thirst! But although the necessity was so pressing, they were yet unwilling to resort to this dreadful extremity, and resolved to stay one day more in hopes of seeing a ship. The next day, no relief appearing, the two wretched victims on whom the lots had fallen, stabbed themselves, the rest sucked their blood, and were thus revived for a short time. They still continued to make signals of distress, and having hoisted a piece of a shirt on a stick, it was at length seen by a ship's crew of Guernsey, one Taskard, master, bound from that island to Southampton. They were all taken on board, when each had a glass of cider and water to drink, which refreshed them considerably; but two of them eagerly seizing a bottle, drank to excess, which caused the death of both in less than two hours. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this shipwreck, is yet to be mentioned. It was with great reluctance that Taskard brought his ship near the Caskets, which were out of his course; but he was very much importuned by his son, who had twice dreamed that there were men in distress upon these rocks. The father refused to notice the first dream, and was angry with his son ; nor would he have yielded on the second, if there had been a favourable wind to go on his own course. WRECKERS PUNISHED. When a shipwreck happens on the coast of Gigery, which is situated about fifty leagues to the eastward of Algiers, the inhabitants, who are a tribe of wandering Arabs, flock down from the mountains, and seize on every thing they possibly can, without any consideration as to the country to which the vessel belongs. If it should happen to be a Turkish ship, the Mahommedan crew is dismissed, with a sufficient supply of provisions to enable them to reach a place where they can be relieved, but all other subjects are made slaves. These Arabs put a high value on iron, which was on one occasion attended with fatal consequences. A bark belonging to Tunis being stranded on the coast of Gigery, the inhabitants hastened on board to plunder. The Turks and Moors who composed the crew, were allowed to go at large; and the natives after carrying off as much as they could, were anxious to obtain the iron about the vessel. As they did not well know how to come at it, they laid a train to the powder magazine, concluding that if the ship blew up, they would be able to collect the iron from the fragments. On setting fire to the train, the vessel indeed blew up; but fifty of the plunderers, who had not retired beyond the effects of the explosion, were killed, and a much larger number wounded. LADY CAST AWAY ON THE COAST OF LABRADOR. The following brief but striking narrative is related by Lieutenant Chappell, in his "Voyage to Newfoundland." The reader will only need it to be suggested, to discover the resemblance (notwithstanding the wide difference of scene and other circumstances) of this true story of Mrs. E., to Milton's beautiful creation of the Lady in the Masque of Comus. We were much surprised (says Lieutenant Chappell) on visiting our good friend Mr. Pinson, to find a handsome female seated at the head of the table The sight of a white woman was now a real gratification to us all; and our officers were anxiously desirous to discover by what means she had been thrown upon the savage territory of Labrador. On enquiry, we found that she was the daughter of a respectable Canadian, who had early in life been married to a Mr. E, the master of an English Quebec trading vessel. In the beginning of December, 1812, the ship of her husband quitted the country in which she was born, on its return with a cargo to Europe; but during its voyage thither, it was wrecked near Bonne Bay, in the Island of Newfoundland. The night was dreadfully tenipestuous; and with great danger and difficulty Mrs. E- reached the shore, in an open boat, scarcely capable of containing four persons. At length, however, the whole of the crew were safely landed ; and immediately collected whatever could be saved from the floating wreck, and placed the articles under a sail cloth tent. The winter had now set in with such rigour, that it was totally impossible to travel far in search of fishing settlements. Under these afflicting circumstances, it was resolved to erect a hut for the officers, and another for the crew; by which means they hoped to secure themselves against the piercing cold of the climate. It was in this miserable state that the youthful and delicate Mrs. E lingered through a long and dismal winter, upon a rocky coast blocked up with an ocean of frozen fragments; and surrounded on the land side by snowy mountains and icy valleys. Both the lady and her companions were compelled to cut off their hair entirely; it was so strung with icicles, that it became exceedingly painful and troublesome. To add to the sufferings of this unfortunate lady, she found herself enceinte. The crew mutinied, swearing, with dreadful imprecations, that they would take away the life of her hus. band, because he had prudently refused them an immoderate share of the brandy that had been saved from the wreck; and the barbarous wretches even threw firebrands into the hut where she lay, although their whole stock of gunpowder was stowed within its walls. At length, the much wished-for season of spring made its appearance; but instead of comfort, it brought additional misery. Hitherto, the affectionate attentions of her fond husband, had been the solace and support of her life; but in the attempt to land a few casks of salted beef from the remains of the wreck, the boat overset, and he was drowned. Left thus destitute and friendless, among a gang of desperate miscreants, she had still courage to bear up against their brutal conduct; and as the summer E |