Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
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PREFACE
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN WOODWARD AND FIVE SEAMEN IN THE ISLAND OF CELEBES
AN OCCURRENCE AT SEA
ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP PHŒNIX
AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE FISHERY
WITH ANECDOTES OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING IT
LOSS OF THE BRIG TYRREL
THE LOSS OF THE PEGGY
LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP LITCHFIELD
WRECK OF THE ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAMER
SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH SHIP DROITS DE L’HOMME
THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP, QUEEN CHARLOTTE
A SCENE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE MEDUSA
THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
LOSS OF THE ÆNEAS TRANSPORT
THE ABSENT SHIP
LOSS OF THE HALSEWELL
AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS,
ABANDONED ON THE ISLAND OF EAST SPITZBERGEN
LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE CONVICT SHIP
THE MUTINEERS, A TALE OF THE SEA
FATE OF SEVEN SAILORS,
WHO WERE LEFT ON THE ISLAND OF ST. MAURICE
SEAMEN WINTERING IN SPITZBERGEN
A MAN OVERBOARD
AN ESCAPE THROUGH THE CABIN-WINDOWS
TOM CRINGLE’S LOG
LOSS OF THE NAUTILUS, SLOOP OF WAR,
ON A ROCK IN THE ARCHIPELAGO
WRECK OF A SLAVE SHIP
THE WRECKED SEAMEN
ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ASHTON,
WHO, AFTER ESCAPING FROM PIRATES, LIVED SIXTEEN MONTHS IN SOLITUDE ON A DESOLATE ISLAND
EXPLOSION OF HIS B. MAJESTY’S SHIP AMPHION
LOSS OF H. B. M. SHIP LA TRIBUNE,
OFF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
BURNING OF THE PRINCE,
A FRENCH EAST INDIAMAN
WRECK OF THE SCHOONER BETSEY,
ON A REEF OF ROCKS
EARLY AMERICAN HEROISM
FINGAL’S CAVE
THE LOSS OF THE RAMILLIES,
IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
PRESERVATION OF NINE MEN,
IN A SMALL BOAT, SURROUNDED BY ISLANDS OF ICE
CAPTAIN ROSS’S EXPEDITION
LOSS OF THE CATHARINE, VENUS AND PIEDMONT TRANSPORTS; AND THREE MERCHANT SHIPS
WRECK OF THE BRITISH SHIP SIDNEY,
ON A REEF OF ROCKS IN THE SOUTH SEA
LOSS OF THE DUKE WILLIAM TRANSPORT
COMMODORE BARNEY
NAVAL BATTLES
OF THE UNITED STATES
CRUISE OF THE WASP
HORNET AND PENGUIN
ALGERINE WAR
ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN
Отрывок из книги
In the year 1791, Woodward sailed from Boston in the ship Robert Morris, Captain Hay, for the East Indies. On his arrival there he was employed in making country voyages until the 20th of January, when he sailed as chief-mate in an American ship from Batavia bound to Manilla.
In passing through the straits of Macassar, they found the wind and current both against them, and after beating up for six weeks they fell short of provision. Captain Woodward and five seamen were sent to purchase some from a vessel about four leagues distant. They were without water, provisions, or compass,—having on board only an axe, a boat hook, two penknives, a useless gun and forty dollars in cash.
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They landed at Macassar on the 15th of June 1795, after a voyage of about nineteen days from Tomboo, and after having been two years and five months in captivity; the reckoning which Captain Woodward kept during that time, being wrong only one day.
I now thought there was no probability of the ship’s soon going to pieces, therefore had not a thought of instant death: took a look round with a kind of philosophic eye, to see how the same situation affected my companions, and was surprised to find the most swaggering, swearing bullies in fine weather, now the most pitiful wretches on earth, when death appeared before them. However, two got safe; by which means, with a line, we got a hawser on shore, and made fast to the rocks, upon which many ventured and arrived safe. There were some sick and wounded on board, who could not avail themselves of this method; we, therefore, got a spare top-sail-yard from the chains and placed one end ashore and the other on the cabin-window, so that most of the sick got ashore this way.
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