The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . everal were raving,and talking wildly through the night, and in the morningthe cook was quite mad. His raving continued during thesucceeding night, and in the morning, as his end seemed tobe approaching, the veins of his neck were cut, and theblood drawn from him. This was the second death. Onthat night Behane was mad, and the boy Burns on the fol-lowing morning; they were obliged to be tied by the crew,and the latter eventually bled to death by cutting his died unexpec
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . everal were raving,and talking wildly through the night, and in the morningthe cook was quite mad. His raving continued during thesucceeding night, and in the morning, as his end seemed tobe approaching, the veins of his neck were cut, and theblood drawn from him. This was the second death. Onthat night Behane was mad, and the boy Burns on the fol-lowing morning; they were obliged to be tied by the crew,and the latter eventually bled to death by cutting his died unexpectedly, or he would have suffered thesame fate. Next morning Mahony distinguished a sail, andraised a shout of joy. A ship was clearly discernible, andbearing her course towards them. Signals were hoisted,and when she approached, they held up the hands and feetof OBrien to excite commiseration. The vessel proved tobe the Angenora, an American. She put off a boat to theirassistance, and the survivors of the Francis Spaight weresafely put on board the American, where they were treatedwith the utmost The Pamperos of the Rio de la Plata; WITH THE REMARKABLE NARRATIVE OF MR. GEORGE FRACKER, THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE CREW OF THE SHIP JANE; His Escape to the Shore, and perilous Situationwhile among the Guachas of South America,September, 1817. N the eastern coast of South America,thirty-four degrees south of the equator,the grand and majestic La Plata flowsinto the Atlantic Ocean. On approach-ing the river from the sea, the low andlevel land appears wholly different in itsoutline from the wild and towering frontalong the coast of Brazil. This vast river is a hundred and fifty miles wide at themouth, and extends, with a gradual contraction, and in awinding direction, along the shores of Paraguay, in the heartof South America, a distance of twelve hundred miles. AtMonte Video the water is brackish, and cannot be drank ;but at a short distance above, though it appears at all tim
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