The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . M., we had the decks as secure as we couldmake them. The crew being very much exhausted, andsome of them almost blind, sent them below to rest; exceptone man. At eight, A. M., rather more moderate — calledall hands and set the foresail; and kept her before the examining about the mainmast, we could not perceivethat it was injured in the least, or trace any marks where thelightning entered below the deck, or any place where it leftthe ship. One of the stanchions, between decks
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . M., we had the decks as secure as we couldmake them. The crew being very much exhausted, andsome of them almost blind, sent them below to rest; exceptone man. At eight, A. M., rather more moderate — calledall hands and set the foresail; and kept her before the examining about the mainmast, we could not perceivethat it was injured in the least, or trace any marks where thelightning entered below the deck, or any place where it leftthe ship. One of the stanchions, between decks, is burntoff; one ceiling, and about one fourth of a beam, directlyacross the ship. The lower deck, in one place, is burntthrouojh within half an inch. Had the fire communicatedto the lower hold, the ship would have been lost. So endthese twenty-four hours. Employed all hands picking theloose cotton off the rigging, the blocks being choked withit fore and aft. Rainy, thick weather, wind west, with aheavy sea ; no observation. Since clearing up the decks, wefind we shall miss about forty bags of THE WRECK AMERICAN WHALE-SHIP MENTOR ON THE CORAL REEFS OF THE PELEW ISLANDS. ¥ith the Captivity and Escape of Horace Holden andBenjamin H. Nute, who, for two Years, were Sub-jected to unheard-of Sufferings, among the Inhabitants of Lord Norths Island; May, 1832. VERY peculiar interest attaches to thisnarrative, both as a case of extremeand otherwise extraordinary individualsuffering, and as it introduces us to acondition of life, in some respects,without a parallel in the annals ofnautical July, 1831, the ship Mentor, of New Bedford, Mass.,Edward C. Barnard, master, sailed on a whaling voyageto the Indian Ocean. After touching at the Azores, shedoubled the Cape of Good Hope, and passed through theStraits of Madagascar to the Indian Ocean. After cruisingamong the islands, without success, we endeavored to passthrough the Straits of Timor, in order to
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