Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THRILLING ESCAPE PROM A PRISON-SHIP. In the year 1813, an American privateer, the Mary Ann, wascaptured by a British man-of-war, and the whole crew, some forty innumber, carried into Plymouth and placed on board a loathsome mi THRILLING ESCAPE FROM A PRISON-SHIP. prison-ship, where they were subjected to all the indignities andcruelties which the English government, through its unfeeling officers, n j5>;mT\:\\v;«€;is:\::ss;«^ \\\\
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THRILLING ESCAPE PROM A PRISON-SHIP. In the year 1813, an American privateer, the Mary Ann, wascaptured by a British man-of-war, and the whole crew, some forty innumber, carried into Plymouth and placed on board a loathsome mi THRILLING ESCAPE FROM A PRISON-SHIP. prison-ship, where they were subjected to all the indignities andcruelties which the English government, through its unfeeling officers, n j5>;mT\:\\v;«€;is:\::ss;«^ \\\\\v then knew so well how to in-. SICKENlNii SCEXE6 AMONW THE PRISONERS. unfortunate prisoners of war. They presented a most forlorn andwretched appearance. They were robbed of nearly all their valuablesand clothing, fed with rations barely sufficient to sustain life, andliterally packed and jammed into such close quarters that the foulair infused a pestilential poison through their systems. They wereragged and dirty, gaunt and ghastly, with pale, pinched faces, hollowcheeks, and sunken, restless eyes. Many were sick, several weredying, numbers had died, and the least afflicted could make no cal-culations of life. It was a scene of wretchedness and misery tosicken the heart of any being possessing the common feelings ofhumanity. Probably the most restless people in the world are the Americans,and for this reason they make the most troublesome prisoners. Theywill not settle down to inactivity under any wrong or oppression; THRILLING ESCAPE FROM A PRISON-SHIP. 235 they will not bear any burden meekly or tamely; nurtured
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