Year: 1865

over him by monstro6s wave, and he arose
to the surface, and was hauled on beard
the vessel, more dead than alive, BY
those who had given him up as lost. CaI-
tain Witty had his breast badly bruised
and his right hand iearfully cut by the mast.
Captain Marks had one Of his ribs broken
and sustained other injuries. After cross
ing the breakers, the vessel was driven in
towards the beach, the waves in the mean
while breaking clear over her. One Of the
men, after repeated efforts, gained the beach
with a rope, and BY that means they were
all enabled to land safely They weie all so
| completely exhausted that they lay down
beneath small palmtree and slept soundly,
despite the fearful storm and rolling surf,
until ten o'clock that night, when they were
awakened by the sea washing away the sand
hill whereon they had lain.


They had then been without food ard
water for twelve hours, and hungry, drench-
ed and exhausted as they were, they could
sleep no more that night, owing to the in
undated state of the island Cramped and
chilled, they were obliged to keep on their
feet all night The storm continued all
that night and the next day with undated
fury. In the morning the schooner had dis





discovered that she had drifed through the
night about two miles further down the
beach.


The gale now began to moderate, but
they were unable to reach the vessel. Their
situation was now, indeed, truly horrible.
They had had nothing to eat for nearly
three days, and their tongues were swollen
in their mouths for want of water. During
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island, barrel of biscuit was washed ashore
and these were all soaked with the salt
water They dug in the sand for fre.h water,
which they soon discovered, when they i'm
mediately set to work and in regular orter
took turns in tapping up the water with
their tongues. The beach was strewn with
fragments of wrecked vessels, and at one
place they found the bones Of a man and
woman, their arms clasped tightly around
each other, as they had met their death.
One of the mans legs was Off just below
the knee it had probably been eaten off By
the sharks. On the fourth day they had
succeeded in gathering enough lumber to
construct raft, and this they launched on
the lagoon that separated the narrow island
from the mainland


Fiilinga small jug, which had been wash
eU ashore, WIN IreSn water, anu taxing rs
many of the biscuit with them as they could
carry, they left the island where they had
suffered so much, and that afternoon, just as
they were nearing the mainland, they were
picked up by a small schooner and carried
to Smyrna. From here, with the crew of
the schooner Harriet B. Tyler, which had
also been wrecked, they tried to reach the
port of St. Augustine, Florida, but were un-
able to cross over the bar owing to the tre-
mendous heavy surf. They were then COM
PEELED to land, and had to make their way
as best they could to the village of Enter
prise, on Lake Monroe, overland. They
had scarcely shoes on their feet, but very lit
tie food, and it can easily be imagined that
the harflships they endured on that trip
we're anything but light. When they camp
ed at night they were surrounded with
wolves, and it was not until they reached
Enterprise that they really knew what rest
was From Enterprise they proceeded to
Jacksonville, where they were kindly fur
nished with transportation to Charleston by
Captain Crocker, of the steamer Cosmopoli-