Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-09-04

side OF the DOWSpstl Hc uNAt WIZ ouiin
under this horrd press OF disasters was HoweS,
4 ,onnc man OF about 80, who Likewise WAS
fisherman, by profession, and tail, spare, and
E as smart and active seaman as any on board.
He likewise died deHrious, and IN dreadful
distress, six days after Paddock, being The fif-
tv-sisth day of the wreck. Something must
be done to procure water, or this must evil
IDENTITY be the fate of all the survivors In Ye-
w short time About this time good luck,
or more probably, Kind providence, enabled
them to fish UP the tea-kettlc and one OF The
captains pistols, and necessity, the mother et
invention, suggested the plan OF disui
Acco, DINGHY piece Of board was very nicely
fitted to the mouth of the boiler a small hole
made in it, and the tea-kettle, bottom upwards
fixed to the upper side of the board; the PTS
toi barrel WAS fixed to the nose OF the kettle.
aid kept cool by the Constant apph>%tion OF
cold nater. This completely sncce dcd and
the survivors without doubt, owe their pre-
seryation to this simple experiment. But all
that could be obtained by this very imperfect
distill, was but scapty allowance OF water
for FIVE men vet it would sustain lie and
that was all. The impression that there was
meat enough under the half deck, induced
therE to use every exeltlon to obtainH; but
by getting up pieces of bone, entirely bare OF
meat and in putrd state they found that no
thing was left Tor them but torcy on Heaven
for food, and be coDtented with whatever came
to hand. TIL relief should come. Their only
sus,enance now was barnacles gathered irom
The sides of the vessel which were ale raw
that the distilling might not be interrupted,
which would give them no more than VINE
glasses Of water each per day. he next 1000
which they obtained Was large shark, caught
by neans of running bovine. This was
very great relief and lasted some time. Two
advantages arose from this signal interposi
lion OF kind providence for while they lived
upon their shark, the barnacles we're growing
larger and more nutrtlve. They ikewis
found many small crabs among the sea-weed
WHICH often Aoated around the wreck which
wee very pleasant food. But from the ne
cessity Of chewing them raw, and sucking out
he nourishmcIt they b ought on an obsina
~osliveness which became extremely palniu
and probably much exasperated by the want ct
Aater.
On the 25th of March, according to their
computation, poor Maho, the cook, expired
evidently from want of water, though with
much less distress than the others and in the
fail exercise Of his reason; he very deyout.
prayed and appeared perfectly resigned to ths
viii OF tie God "ha ,hl c;ed him Their con
slant study was directed to the improvemer,
OF theil dislil, which was made much bette
by the addilionu the other pistol barrel, wblcl
was found by fishing with the grains they
made by fixing spikes into piece Of stave
With this barrel they SO far perfected the dis
Till as to obtain eight Junk bottles full OF Na
ter in "a hours. But fon the death of Ma
no to the deata of Job son which happened
bout the middle of April, they seemed to be
denied every kind of food The barnaclt.
were all gone, and no friendly gale waited u
their side the seaweed from which they couie
obtain crabs or insects-It seemed as if al
hope was gone forever and they nothing be |
fore them but death, or the harrid allerhatiy'
OF eating the flesh Of their dc d companion |
One expedienl was left that was to try to de- |
coya shark, if happily there night be one
bout the wreck by part Of the cups Of then |
snap mate This succeeded, and they caugh |
= large shark, and from that time had plenty |
Of tsh til their happy deliverance. Very for |
tunately, a cask Of nails which was on deck !
odAtd in the sea scuppers, while on theil
beam ends: with these they were enabled t. |
iaslen TIE shingles on their cabin which By |
constant Improvement, had become much
more conn.odious- and when reduced to two |
only, tney had Goa Petent supply of water
They had now driited above 1900 miles and |
were III lat. % n. and Ion. 3 West, when Ia |
their unspeakable JOY they saw three ships |
bearing down upon them. The ships came as |
near as was convenient, and then hailed, which |
Capt. Cazneau answered with all the force of
his lungs. The ship which hailed proved to
be the Fame OF Hull, Captain Featherstone
bound from Rio Janerio home. II so happen
ed that the three Captains had dined together
that day and we're all on board the Fame. HUI |
manity Immediately sent boat, which put an |
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