. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . the following morning, under thecommand of passed-midshipNman Taylor, bearing atreaty, for Muscat, to obtain means of carrying off theofficers and crew, in the event of not being able to getthe ship afloat. The sea was so smooth that we didnot apprehend that the ship would soon go to pieces,but there was much to be feared from the Arabs. On Tuesday morn, the 22d, the work of lighten-ing was continued, and we saw, with feelings of re-gret, one half of our guns cast into the sea; but wehad the pleasure to find that the ship move
. Steamboat disasters and railroad accidents in the United States . the following morning, under thecommand of passed-midshipNman Taylor, bearing atreaty, for Muscat, to obtain means of carrying off theofficers and crew, in the event of not being able to getthe ship afloat. The sea was so smooth that we didnot apprehend that the ship would soon go to pieces,but there was much to be feared from the Arabs. On Tuesday morn, the 22d, the work of lighten-ing was continued, and we saw, with feelings of re-gret, one half of our guns cast into the sea; but wehad the pleasure to find that the ship moved and gotinto rather deeper water. The moment she began tomove, new life was infused into all hands, and themen broke forth in a song and chorus, to which theykept time as they, marched round the capstan, orhauled in the hawser by hand. At 2, P. M., we anchored in three and a halffathoms water, yet the distance was so great to wherethe water was deep enough to make sail, that we wereby no means sure of getting off. fhe next morning, having laid a kedge well ou$ -. BURNING OF A LIGHT-HOUSE. 405 to windward which was off shore, and having hoistedthe topsail yards to the mast-heads, we hove up theanchors. The ship was well off the shore, but thewater was only three and a quarter fathoms topsails were let fall and spread with great celer-ity, and at the same instant the back-rope of the kedgewas cut, leaving us once more under the influence ofour canvass. At 6 oclock we had beat off severalmiles, and anchored in six fathoms of water, with theisland of Mazeira in sight, showing us that we werebetween it and the main. u Early on the 24th, we got under way, and beatoff the Gulf of Mazeira. At sunset, the southern ex-tremity of the island was astern, and a last cast of thelead gave us thirty fathoms in an open sea, after hav-ing been grinding the coral for fifty-six hours. A THRILLING DESCRIPTION Of the Burning of the Light-house on Cape Flor-ida, by the Seminole Indians, and
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