The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea, and Surrendered Themselves Up to the Malays in the Island of Celebes: Containing an Interesting Account of Their Sufferings from Hunger and Various Hardships, and Their Escape from the Malays, After a Captivity of Two Years and a Half : Also, an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Country, and a Description of the Harbours and Coast, &c. : Together with an Introduction and an Appendix, Containing Narratives of Various Escapes from Shipwrecks, Under Great Hardships and Abstinence, Holding Out a Valuable Seaman's Guide, and the Importance of Union, Confidence, and Perseverance in the Midst of DistressJ. Johnson, 1804 - 252 sider |
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Side 185 - ... across a sea where the navigation is but little known, in a small boat, twentythree feet long from stem to stern, deep laden with eighteen men.
Side 177 - I found a bag of bread, a small ham, a single piece of pork, two quart bottles of water, and a few of French cordials.
Side 178 - Hitherto despair and gloom had been successfully prohibited, and as the evenings closed in, the men had been encouraged, by turns, to sing a song, or relate a story, instead of a supper ; but this evening I found it impossible to raise either.
Side 176 - Some appeared perfectly resigned, went to their hammocks and desired their messmates to lash them in, others were securing themselves to gratings and small rafts : but the most predominant idea was that of putting on their best and cleanest clothes.
Side 190 - Miserable,' says Lieutenant Bligh, ' as our situation was in every respect, I was secretly surprised to see that it did not appear to affect any one so strongly as myself; on the contrary, it seemed as if they had embarked on a voyage to Timor in a vessel sufficiently calculated for safety and convenience.
Side 220 - I may with justice impute the preservation of my own life, and that of six other persons, whp must have perished but for its being put in use. " The hint was first communicated to me from the perusal of a treatise written by Dr. LIND, and which I think ought to be commonly understood and recommended to all sea-faring people.
Side 170 - M'Quin, of Major Searle's company; another man called Brighouse, another called Parr, and the sixth Matthew Conway. Parr was a good seaman, and said he would take us to the Island of Ascension, or lay off the harbour till the Columbia could weigh anchor and come out.
Side 177 - ... bottle broken off, with the cork in, served for a glass, and this, filled with water, was the allowance for twenty-four hours for each man. This was done without any sort of partiality or distinction : but we must have perished ere this, had we not caught six quarts of rain water ; and this we could not have been blessed with, had we not found in the boat a pair of sheets, which by accident had been put there.
Side 177 - This was the fifteenth day we had been in the boat, and we had only one day's bread, and one bottle of water remaining, of a second supply of rain. Our sufferings were now as great as human strength could bear ; but we were convinced that good spirits Were a better support than great bodily strength, for on this day Thomas Mathews, quarter-master, perished from hunger and cold.
Side 231 - Holborn, and laid itself down on the steps, having been ten hours in its journey from St. Paul's to that place. The dog was so much altered, the eyes being sunk in the head as to be scarce discernible, that the master would not encourage his old faithful companion; who, when lost, was supposed to weigh twenty pounds, and now only weighed three pounds fourteen ounces.