. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . ooted,) and they pursued us. Captain Thomas,having taken a long walk with Cammett, was tired, and gaveout. We halted, being thirty yards ahead of him, to seewhat his fate might be. I saw him shot, the ball whizzingby me; and he fell on his face, and seemed to die instantly-After this, we expected no quarter, if taken. I felt approach-ing weakness from loss of blood, and feared I must soongive up. We very soon entered the bushes, Cammett goingahead. I soon lost him, and made my way alo
. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . ooted,) and they pursued us. Captain Thomas,having taken a long walk with Cammett, was tired, and gaveout. We halted, being thirty yards ahead of him, to seewhat his fate might be. I saw him shot, the ball whizzingby me; and he fell on his face, and seemed to die instantly-After this, we expected no quarter, if taken. I felt approach-ing weakness from loss of blood, and feared I must soongive up. We very soon entered the bushes, Cammett goingahead. I soon lost him, and made my way along till night,among the palmettoes, which cut my feet cruelly; added tothis, were mosquitoes, which were a formidable foe. Atdark, on Sunday night, I came out on the beach, and trav-elled till nearly daylight. Finding my wounds bleeding pro-fusely, I tore off the bottom of my flannel shirt, and boundthem up, — which continued to bleed all the next day. Ilay down, and sometimes fell down, often thinking I shouldnot be able to rise again. My fears were increased from the 28 826 THE WRECK OF THE BRIG The Death of Captain Thomas, and Escape of Wyer and Cammett. trail of blood which I left behind, knowing this to be a goodmark for them. Monday I continued to travel the beach —went to the river, running parallel with the sea, for water —ate nothing that day — came to New River, waded in to myneck, and swam off, finding the current setting from bothshores to the centre, making it very doubtful to me, fromthe long time I was there, whether I could ever reach theopposite shore. Here I was about to despair. I finally gotfoothold and gained the shore, but found myself very muchexhausted. I should think the river was a quarter of a milewide. It was about night. I kept on — occasionally wouldlie down during the night, gathering the sea-weed to coverme, while asleep — when I awoke, would go on again tillweary, and then take a nap. 1 Tuesday morning, fair weather — saw a
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