Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-07-16

besotted shipmates behind.
The morning dawned, the sailors awoke
from their slumber and drunken stupor to
find themselves victims of their captains
treachery. The boa. was gone with all
their store of fresh water and they were
left on a desolate island. to escape from
which they were powerless The captains
base conduct ranked deep in their breasts.
and they broke out in deep lamentations
over their condition and heaped curses up
on his head for his base action in desert
ing them in such Il shameful aud cruel
manner, with starvation and death staring
them in the face. At first they could not
believe that they had been deserted, and
they strained their eyes trying to get sight
OF the boat, and ran wildly around the
shores of the island imagining they were
the victims of horrible nightmare. which
they were in VAN trying to di>pel, instead
of being, as was really the case, victims Of
one Of the most cruel and dastarllv acts
ever perpetrated by shipmaster upon his
helpless aud shlpwrecked crew. The mo-
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