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 tears of blood at the fate of these unfortunate men; but this painful sacrifice saved the fifteen that remained; and who, after this dreadful catastrophe, had six days suffering to undergo before they were relieved from their dismal situation.’ At the end of this period, a small vessel at a distance ; she proved to be the Argu brig, which had been despatched from Senegal to look out for them. All hearts on board were melted with pity at their deplorable condition.—‘Let any one,’ say our unfortunate narrators, ‘figure to himself fifteen unhappy creatures almost naked, their bodies shrivelled by the rays of the sun, ten of them scarcely able to move our limbs stripped of their skin; a total change in all our features; our eyes hollow and almost savage; our long beards which gave us an a almost hideous—we were in fact but the shadow of ourselves.’

Such is the history of these unfortunate men. Of the hundred and fifty who embarked on the raft, fifteen only were received on board the brig and of these six died shortly after their arrival at St. Louis ; and the remaining nine covered with cicatrices, and exhausted by the suffering to which they had been so long exposed, and stated to be entirely altered in appearance and constitution. We are shocked to add, that such was the neglect and indifference of their ship mates who had arrived there in safety, that had it not been for the humane attention of Major Peddy and Captain Campbell, they would in a probability have experienced the fate of the unfortunate companions.