The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . g she evertasted! It is melancholy to add, that the person, whosebrains she thus was forced by hunger to eat, had been threetimes wrecked before ; and, in one instance, he was provi-dentially picked up by a vessel, after being two-and-twentydays on the wreck, water-logged. In the present instancehe perished, having survived similar sufferings for a space of 196 FAMINE ON BOARD OF A FOUNDERED SHIP. twenty-nine days, and then became food for his remainingshipmates ! Miss Ann Saunders,
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . g she evertasted! It is melancholy to add, that the person, whosebrains she thus was forced by hunger to eat, had been threetimes wrecked before ; and, in one instance, he was provi-dentially picked up by a vessel, after being two-and-twentydays on the wreck, water-logged. In the present instancehe perished, having survived similar sufferings for a space of 196 FAMINE ON BOARD OF A FOUNDERED SHIP. twenty-nine days, and then became food for his remainingshipmates ! Miss Ann Saunders, the other female, had morestrength and fortitude, in her calamity, than most of themen. She performed the duty of cutting up and cleaningthe dead bodies, keeping two knives in her the death of any of the company was announced, shewould sharpen her knives, bleed the deceased in the neck,drink his blood, and cut him up. From want of water, thosewho perished drank their own urine and salt water ; they be-came foolish, crawling upon their hands round the deck, anddied, generally, raving THE HEROISM OF A STEAMBOAT ENGINEER, DURING A GALE ON LAKE ERIE,November, 1838, AMONG the perilous scenes of the heavy gale on LakeErie, in November, 1838, which caused such wide-spreaddisaster to the lake shipping, one has come to our knowl-edge, equalling, in interest, the most highly-wrought tale offiction. In that fearful night, the steamboat Constitution,of Buffalo, Captain Appleby, was out amidst the terrors ofthe gale. By the glimpses caught at intervals, when thefitful storm for a moment broke away, the anxious andwatchful commander was made aware of the critical situ-ation of his boat, which was rapidly drifting in — under thehurricane power of the gale, which blew almost directlyacross the lake—^toward a dangerous reef, from which escapewould have been impossible. He went directly to the en-gineer, and ordered on more steam. The reply of theengineer was, that t
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