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 which they bound together with ropes, and on which they set off with a small quantity of provisions, without oars or sails, and were drowned. Another, who refused to embark with them, took it into his head, a few days after, to try for the shore; he placed himself on a hen-coop, dropped from the wreck, and at the distance of half cable’s length from it, sunk to rise no more. The remaining four resolved to die by the wreck one of them had just expired when the vessel from Senegal arrived; the other three were so exhausted, that a few hours more must have put an end to their misery.

packet, on her voyage from Halifax for England, struck against an island of ice, and foundered, on the morning of Tuesday the 28th of June, 1803, in lat. 46 deg. 33', long. 4 deg., being then three hundred and fifty leagues distant from Newfoundland. The captain, with twenty-eight passengers and crew, had just time to save themselves in the cutter and jolly-boat before she went down. During this calamity the men behaved with a coolness, composure and obedience to orders, that could not be surpassed; and one of the men, while the boats were hoisting out, emptied a demi-jean (or bottle) of rum of five gallons, for the purpose of filling it