The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . he inter-ference of a landsman, only laughed at his fears andrefused to stir. A second time Goddard came downexclaiming, For Gods sake come on deck or we shallall be lost! I see breakers all around us. Putting onmy gown and slippers, says the admiral, I foundwhat he told me to be true ; but still I could see noland to leeward. Just then the moon broke throughthe mist and showed him his mistake. lender his in-structions the whole fleet was blindly rushing on to itsdestruction. It was midnight, or later, when
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . he inter-ference of a landsman, only laughed at his fears andrefused to stir. A second time Goddard came downexclaiming, For Gods sake come on deck or we shallall be lost! I see breakers all around us. Putting onmy gown and slippers, says the admiral, I foundwhat he told me to be true ; but still I could see noland to leeward. Just then the moon broke throughthe mist and showed him his mistake. lender his in-structions the whole fleet was blindly rushing on to itsdestruction. It was midnight, or later, when the alarm was giventhat the ships were among the breakers. All was in-stantly confusi(m, terror, and dismay. Signal gunsboomed dismally in the darkness. Hitll above the The nilmiral IhiiI the blnmo of this fatal mnnaiivre iii>on (he i)ilotA, who, to a mitn,flatly (icnied having piven any siu^h ailvk-e. The charts show the fleet at this timeto have been actually embayed by the southerly trend of the north shore. ^IS THK noUDHIl WARS OF NEW ENGLAND [ITU Pi Jtlnxlufti. Tarvlecosl-^. ©TMesMmtsPeleS PLACE OP THE WRECK. shouts of the living rose the drowning shrieks of hun-dreds of miserable wretches, as one ship after anotherShips go ciashed bodily upon the hidden rocks of ashore. ^j^g low-ljing Egg Islands. When it was all over, eight transports were seen to have been lostand not far from a thousand persons had perished. 1711] THE GREAT SHIPWRHCK 279 Bad as this was, the Avouder is that any escaped totell the tale. But warned by the signal guns fired bythe ships that had struck, some captains wore ship intime to go clear of the rocks, while others, upon findingthemselves actually among the breakers, Narrow let go their anchors as a last resort and escapes. were saved by a lucky shift of wind from the very jawsof destruction. Among others, the flag-ship herself wascaught in this perihnis i)light, from which she onlj es-caped by cutting her cables and crowding on all sail. The ne
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