Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-09-13
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would feel quite as much concern for him
self as for any one else. He was ,conser
quendy among the foremost Of those who y.
sought tie small boat for safety, and was
about to step into it, when he discovered a 8.
Young lady,, whom he recognised as one
whose appearance had sundry tin Q during
the passage, arrested his attention.: Her pro-
teetor was the gentleman who was walking Z.
on deck and blown overheard. He sprang
towards her, to take her into the small boat,
but in the crowd and confusion he lost
sight of her, and he supposed she was with
some other friend During his ffuitIess
search the small boat showed off. The s.
wreck was fast sinking. The night rang
with the prayers and shrieks ofthe helpless
and drowning. He trned away in des-
pair, and tumbled over a coil ofsropesNs
Hope like the expiring spark frightened
again., He caught up the. rope-lashet
together couple Of settees threw upon
them the piece of an old sail and small 8
empty cask, and thus equipped, launched
upon the element 1t was all the work of a.
moment. He believed death inevitable,
and that effort was the last grasp at life,
His vesscl bore him up much better than he
expected, and he was consoling himself with
his escape such as it was, while others
we're perishing all around him, when he
discovered female struggling for life al y
most within his grasp, He left his ds'ks--.s. .
swan but twice his length seized his OBJ
iect and returned safely to his craft again, !,
which proved sufficient to sustain them both,
but With their heads and shoulders only a.
l-bove water. The female was the lady for Z
whom he lost passage in the small boat. !
She fancied their float would be unable t.
support both, and said 10 him, ''you will
have to let me go to save YOURSELF" He
! replied, 1--WE live or we die together. "
Soon after, they drifted upon. a piece Of the
wreck. probably part Of the same floor or 3
partition torn asunder by the explosion.
! This with the aid of the settees, fastened
beneath it, proved sufficient to keep them
out Of wafer. About this time one Of the 2.
dy heavily loaded. He iipplored them to
take in the young lady. But she said no.
. she could but die--he had saved her life.
and she could not leave him.. They were
fairly at sea, without the least morsel tose
eat or drink. ina searching climate. the !.
young lady in her night clothes, and him.
self with nothing upon him but his shirt
and thin pair of pantaoons, already much
torn. Of the boat which bore them all in
quiet and safety but q half hour before.
nothing was to be seen but scattering pie
ces of the wreck. j The small boat was pm
her way to tae shore, their own craft be-
ing light, and lightly loaded, driited fast
away from scene indescribably heart
rending, and which he still shudders TO
think of. -
AT daylight nothing was visibleto them
but the heavens and awaste of water. In
the course of the day they, came in sight'o
land, and for some time were confident Oh
reaching it---but during the succeeding
might the wind changed, and soon after day
1 light the next morning it vanished again,
! and with it all their lively hopes ofssesca-sf
ping from their dreadful dilemma. On thee
third day sail bore in sight-but she. was (
entirely beyond haiIing distance. When
found, they were sadly burned by the sun
starved and exhausted, though still in ].
possession of their faculties, and able to
move and talk, But their pain and suffer-
ing was not without its pleasures and, en-
| joyment. The romantic part of the story3
| of their expedition is yet to comesand
there s no telling how much longer they
would have subsisted on the same food that
seems 10 have aided at least in sustaininga
them SO we'll such an incredible length of
time. ;. M *, -s,. -.ss -sss
The intrepidity he .displayed--the risk
he ran the danger he incurred, and above
all, the magnanimity he evinced in saving
i her life, strangers as they were TO- each
each other, at the eminent hazard Of his
own, elected with her, at once, the warm
est and strongest feelings of gratitude to-
wards him, and before the tortures OF hun
! ger and thirst commenced, kindly that
! passion. which now burns nowhere else. -
1 it burns in woman's bosom. On the otnek
hand, her good sense. her fortitude ana
presence of mind at the most perlous mo-
ment, and particularly her readiness to meet
and share with him the same tate which
awaited them, excited on spart an ATTACKS
! ment which was neither to be disguised nor
deferred. And there upon the vwaters
| wild, "amid the terror which surrounded,
j and the fate which ihreatenedSthem. inthe.
4 presence. onlyzofan all-seeing God did
they pledge their mutual love and declare
1 lf-their-iives were spared. their dsstiayy
which misfortune had united ,sshotld then
be made as inseparabe, as escape from I
j was now impossible, a .s.
Afterafh s<.,.,o /, q :, 1cfl her hat