instrument of destruction but a place of the cliff is profoundly and presents the mouth of a huge in which the bodies of men and the of ships are alike hurled down and buried the had dragged with eight years of trouble in the rest her injured screw her from steaming vigorously up and a little before day she had struck the front of the coral come oflf struck again and gone down stem foremost as she went into the gaping hollow of the of her whole of nearly eighty four souls were cast alive on the beach and the bodies of the remainder were by the of the streams at last from the harbour and naked on the of the island five ships were immediately with the same destruction the vanished � the four poor on shore � read a dreadful on their danger which was swelled out of all proportion by the violence of their own movements as they leaped and fell among the by seven the was so fortunate as to avoid the and beach upon a space of sand where she was immediately deserted by her crew with the assistance of not without loss of life by about eight it was the turn of the she was close down upon the doomed herself it might yet be possible to save a the tion of her crew and for this end captain placed his reliance on the very of the seas that threatened him the moment was watched for with the anxiety of despair but the coolness of courage as she rose on the fatal wave her were simultaneously slipped she to in rising and the sea heaved her bodily upward and cast her down with a on the summit of the where she lay on her beam ends her back broken buried in seas but safe conceive a table the in the darkness had been smashed against the rim and flung below the cast free in the nick of opportunity had been thrown upon the top many were injured in the many tossed into the water twenty perished the crept again on board their ship as it now lay and as it still remains to the waves a monument of the sea s tn still weather under a sky in those seasons when that ill named ocean the pacific suffers its vexed shores to rest she lies high and dry the spray scarce touching her � the structure of man s hands within a circuit eight years of trouble in of a thousand miles � tossed up there like a s cap upon a shelf broken like an ge a thing to dream of the of germany and britain were both that morning in and both displayed their nobler qualities de the grim old soldier collected his family and with them in an agony of prayer for those exposed more fortunate in that he was called to a more active service must upon the striking of the pass to his own from this he was divided by the now a raging torrent the trunks of trees a might have dreaded to attempt the passage we may conceive this brave but unfortunate and now ruined man to have found a natural joy in the exposure of his life and twice that day coming and going he the fury of the river it was possible in spite of the darkness of the and the continual of the seas to remark human movements on the and by the help of always nobly forward in the work whether for friend or enemy sought the long to get a line conveyed from shore and was for long defeated the shore guard of fifty men stood to their arms the while upon the beach useless themselves and a great of usefulness it was perhaps impossible that this mistake should be avoided what more natural to the mind of a european than that the should fall upon the in this hour of their disadvantage but they had no other thought than to assist and those who now rallied beside as they supposed in doing so a double danger from the fury of the sea and the weapons of their enemies about nine a swam ashore and reported all the officers and some sixty men alive but in pitiable case some with broken limbs others insensible from the of the later in the certain succeeded in reaching the wreck and returning with a line but it was speedily broken and all subsequent attempts proved the strongest being cast back again by the bursting seas all through that day and night the must continue to eight years of trouble in endure their and one officer died it was supposed from agony of mind in his cabin three ships still hung on the next margin of destruction steaming desperately to their dashed helplessly together the was the nearest in she had the close on her port side and a little ahead the close a the under her heel and steaming and on her the unhappy ship with her three dangers about a quarter to nine she carried away the quarter gallery with her boom a moment later the had near her from the other side by nine the dropped down on her too fast to be avoided and clapped her stern under the of the english ship the of which were burst asunder as she rose ta avoid cutting her down it was necessary for the to stop and even to reverse her engines and her was at the moment � or it seemed so to the eyes of those on board � within ten feet of the between the and the writes in his excellent report it the was destruction to repeat s with the was impossible the was too heavy the one possibility of escape was to go out if the engines should stand if they should have power to drive the ship against 