. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . r ambition to save lives andproperty. S. CAMMETT, 28 * E. WYER, Jun. A DETAIL OF THE Terrible Proceedings on Board of an Italian Brig, THE ESPIRITO SANTO, IN WHICH THE PLAGUE BROKE OUT, DURING A VOYAGE FROM ALEXANDRIA TOWARDS LEGHORN; By which awful Visitation the Crew became unableto manage the Vessel, and she was wrecked nearCastle Rossa, on the Coast of Karamania, in theMediterranean Sea; March, 1833. BY ONE OF THE PASSENGERS, LIEUTENANT A. NOTT, t OF THE HONORABLE EAST INDIA COMPA
. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . r ambition to save lives andproperty. S. CAMMETT, 28 * E. WYER, Jun. A DETAIL OF THE Terrible Proceedings on Board of an Italian Brig, THE ESPIRITO SANTO, IN WHICH THE PLAGUE BROKE OUT, DURING A VOYAGE FROM ALEXANDRIA TOWARDS LEGHORN; By which awful Visitation the Crew became unableto manage the Vessel, and she was wrecked nearCastle Rossa, on the Coast of Karamania, in theMediterranean Sea; March, 1833. BY ONE OF THE PASSENGERS, LIEUTENANT A. NOTT, t OF THE HONORABLE EAST INDIA COMPANYS SERVICE. FTER several years active duty in theHonorable East India Companys ser-vice, I obtained a furlough to revisitmy native land, and embarked at Bom-bay, on the 3d of January, 1833, in anative vessel; and after a dangerousand uncomfortable voyage of threemonths up the Red Sea, we reachedSuez, where I disembarked and crossed the isthmus toCairo. As the plague was raging with great violence inAlexandria, to avoid entering the city, I determined toproceed to Rosetta, and thence by sea to the port of. THE SICK ARE CONFINED IN THE LONG-BOAT. 331 Alexandria, so as to obtain a vessel without landing. I wasaccompanied by a young military friend. We arrived on the 13th of March, and procured a pas-sage on board of an Italian brig, the Espirito Santo, boundto Leghorn, and sailed on the day of our arrival; and, as weleft the harbor, we could not but congratulate ourselves onour escape from the abode of pestilence, little imaginingthat the germ of the terrific malady was latent amongst was bustle, gayety, and life; the breeze was fresh andfair, and our little bark sprang gayly forward. Alexandriawas on the horizon, but its domes and lofty minarets werefast sinking beneath it, and the sun shone upon them asgloriously as if its beams were not illuminating a whitenedsepulchre. We had been seven days at sea, when one of the crew wastaken ill, and died on the following evening.
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