The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-12

been sblpwrecked before and had suffered
terribly. When he began TO grow flighty
he recalled this event and confounded our
situation with his former misfortune.
was slow TO notice II, for my own head wa,
| light. The sky and sea seemed as one 10
me, and j could hear In the noise OF the
sea voices that | knew on shore. | was
| first made aware of Lapg's condition by his
starting up suddenly when we had both
been lying side by side for hours silent and
almost moti0ness on the raft, and CRYING
out, They're coming with the boats.'
raised up and looked out, but saw no sail
nor any boats. / turned round TO Lang,
and saw by the glitter in bis eyes and the
uneaIthly look in his face that he was out of
his head. All that day he would point 10
the white caps OF the waves and say that the
boats were coming. Sometimes he would
say they were fishermen, but that they would
not save us, for they did not care. BY night
bis Authorizations began TO affect me. Each
time he would cry out "a boat | would
stagger TO nv feet and look about The hOri-
ZoD. In moment was conscious OF Lang's
delirium, and would settle back TO my posi-
ton, only TO start up and repeat 1t over and
over again.
"On the sixth day our sutferings were
terrible. ] can't give you any idea OF them.
remember only that Lang improved, while
felt myself giving way. He cheered up
wonderfully, and tried 10 impart some Of
bis confidence in Inc. BE said that he knew
we had been slowly but surely drifting
southwark, and must be near the track OF
the bOmewsrd bound West Indiamen. In
this he was right. On the sixth night we
had been lying side by side without utter
ing q word. At the fist sign OF daylight |
managed 10 get on my knees and look about.
| looked toward the east, and was rewarded
by seeing sail. As the tight increased
saw another sail nearly opposite the latter,
but both OF them were bearing away from
us, and neither had evidently seen us.
Weak and exhausted as we were we man
aged by turns TO watch these sails all day.
The wind was so slight that they made little
headway, and we saw them as the sun went
down, but they did not see us. In the morn
ing neither vessel was in sight. We COM
forted ourselves, however, with the thought
that we were in the track OF vessels and
stood good chance OF being picked up.
THE RESCUE.
"The last night on the raft was one OF
less terror than any OF the others. We
bathed our heads and rnsed our mouths
with sea-water, which greatly relieved our
thirst. Neither OF us suffered much with
hunger, which was almost forgotten through
the agony OF our thirst. On the mornin. OF
the seventh day slight rain fell. By lying
down on our backs we caught some OF il in
our mouths. At noon stood up and saw 4
bark about six miles TO windward OF Us. BY
our united efforts we tore up Il piece OF the
plankiDg OF our raft. This we split and
succeeded in fastening my flannel shirt to II.
In an hour we saw the bark, which was
close hauled, fall of two or three points,
and knew that she had seen us. She proved
to be the bark Leandro, Captain Gaudalich.
We were taken on board and landed at Bos-
ton"
First Officer Mcdonald and Lang are both
Englishmen, and were taken care OF by the
British Consul insBoston. The day before
yesterday McDonald's sister went after him
and brought him from the city hospital TO
this city.
The bark County OF Richmond was owned
In Halifax, and was OF 40 tons burden.