. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... ey all agrer-rl, that theironly chance of doing so, was by means of the mizen mast. Thetop-mast and top-gallant-mast were launched out, and r^eachcd THE CUMBERLAND PACKET. 309 within a few feet of the rock. An attempt was made by of thecrew, to throw a rope with a noose to the top of the rock; but in-stead of holding by the bushes, it brought them aw
. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... ey all agrer-rl, that theironly chance of doing so, was by means of the mizen mast. Thetop-mast and top-gallant-mast were launched out, and r^eachcd THE CUMBERLAND PACKET. 309 within a few feet of the rock. An attempt was made by of thecrew, to throw a rope with a noose to the top of the rock; but in-stead of holding by the bushes, it brought them away. Anotherseaman, who seemed from despair to have imbibed an extraordi-nary degree of courage, followed the first man out on the mast,with the intention of throwing himself from the end upon the mercyof the rock; he had proceeded to the extremity of the top-gallant-mast, and was on the point of leaping among the bushes, whenthe pole of the mast, unable to sustain his weight, gave way, andprecipitated him into the bosom of the waves, from a height offorty feet. Fortunately he had carried down with him the pieceof the broken mast, and instead of being dashed to pieces, as wa?expected, he kept himself above water until he was hoisted up. Loss iifthe Cumberland Packet. All hopes of being saved by the mizen-mast were now at an end,and while the crew were meditating in sullen silence on their situa-tion, INIr. Doncaster, the chief mate, unknojvn to any one, wealout on the bowsprit, and having reached the end of the jib-boom,threw himself headlong into the water. He had scarcely fallen,wiien a tremendous wave threw him upon the rock, and left himdry; there he remained motionless, until a second wave wasliedhim still farther up, when clinging to some roughness in the clitf,he began to scramble up the rock; and in about half an hour, hewith infinite difficulty reached the summit of the cliff. Ihe crewanxiously watched every step he took, and prayed for his safety,conscious that their o
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