The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . ey returned the same night. Another month havingbeen employed in refitting, they tempted the treacherousdeep once more. Taking with them three of the natives,two of them chiefs, who, in their confiding simplicity, wereleaving their homes to go, they knew not whither, and bringback the stipulated reward. The remaining three of thecrew staid behind on the island as hostages. Seven of our number now took the canoe, viz., Bouket,Sedon, Andrews, Hulet, and the three natives. CaptainBarnar
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . ey returned the same night. Another month havingbeen employed in refitting, they tempted the treacherousdeep once more. Taking with them three of the natives,two of them chiefs, who, in their confiding simplicity, wereleaving their homes to go, they knew not whither, and bringback the stipulated reward. The remaining three of thecrew staid behind on the island as hostages. Seven of our number now took the canoe, viz., Bouket,Sedon, Andrews, Hulet, and the three natives. CaptainBarnard, Rollins, Nute, and myself, preferred the ships were accompanied on our passage the first day by alarge number of the natives. At night, as we had thensucceeded in getting beyond the reef, they left us, and wecontinued our course. We had not proceeded far before we had reasons forregretting that we had entered upon the perilous under-taking of navigating the waters of that region in boats sopoorly adapted to the purposes we had in view. Therecame on a violent storm of rain, the wind blowing hard,. The Boat and Canoe overtaken by a violent Storm. and the waves threatening to swallow us, each moment ofthe night. To our dismay, the rudder of the canoe, owing12 * 138 THE WRECK OF THE SHIP MENTOR. to the imperfect manner in which it had been constructed,was unshipped, and, for a time, the destruction of those onboard seemed inevitable. Fortunately we continued to keepcompany. By great exertion we made out to replace therudder in the morning, and then proceeded. In the courseof the day, the rudder was again unshipped ; but, with lessdifficulty than before, we succeeded in fastening it to itsplace with ropes, so that it answered tolerably well as a sub-stitute for a better one. Happy would it have been for us,if this had been the worst of the disasters of our mast next went by the board ; and during the whole ofthe next night, we lay drifting at the mercy of the w
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