A HISTORY OF SHIPWRECKS, AND DISASTERS AT SEA, FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. "The wreck, the shores, the dying, and the drown'd." IN TWO VOLUNES VOL. I. THE NORTHERN AND POLAR SEAS. LONDON: WHITTAKER, TREACHER, & CO., AVE-MARIA LANE. MDCCCXXXIII. PREFACE. THESE Volumes may be regarded, in some respect, as a continuation of what has been already laid before the reader in the earlier portion of this miscellany. The losses of the Antelope, Pandora, and Medusa, as well as the perils of Madame Godin, and the captivity of De Brisson, were published some time ago. The present narratives of the same nature have been drawn from valid authorities, British and foreign, and have been condensed, in order, while nothing material is omitted, to bring into the smallest compass as much interesting matter as possible. Thus they continue a record of the fortitude, patience, and suffering of gallant seamen under perils, oftentimes beyond example in human endurance. Both volumes have been arranged chronologically, the second only as far as respects its own contents, but the first with a view to complete as far as possible those oceanic disasters most worthy of attention, which, owing to the nature of the climate, bear a peculiar character. It has been thought best to avoid as much as possible awakening sympathy in the reader's mind, by any display of language, for the simplest narrative of such calamities will kindle a consentaneous feeling - defene o the annals of Engla ther glory. Hen 1 dotat cabinets D templatier of scene, wast admiration of the ph.....> exhibiting & grandeur á hour of trial that mes ve tattered. smar kind that remain unand none deserve to perish. may peruse them with profit. mself may learn from those who such misfortunes, the resources availed themselves II BUping from life at inhinitanie stures, ril 18th, 1235. |