Dangers de la profonde : être un compte d'une partie de la remarquable de naufrages et catastrophes naturelles en mer au cours des dernières cent années . l'homme qui était mort thepreceding la nuit, et s'aventurait à apaiser l'theircravings. Il ne semble pas qu'ils retirent de l'muchrelief opportun ; horrible pour daydeclined avant le décès avait fait des ravages parmi eux triste.Le Capitaine Palmer, qui n'avait jamais murmuré, mais hadexerted lui-même à la dernière pour le confort d'hiscrew, est mort ce jour ; de même que le premier lieutenant. Au cours de la nuit suivante, certains des hommes re-résolu à tenter la construction d'un radeau,sur whi

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Perils of the deep : being an account of some of the remarkable shipwrecks and disasters at sea during the last hundred years . man who had died thepreceding night, and ventured to appease theircravings. It does not appear that they derived muchrelief from the horrible expedient; for before the daydeclined death had made sad havoc among them.Captain Palmer, who had never murmured, but hadexerted himself to the last for the comfort of hiscrew, died this day ; and so did the first lieutenant. During the following night some of the men re-solved upon attempting the construction of a raft, upon which, with a favourable wind, they mightreach the island of Cerigotto. With the dawn of thefifth morning they carried their design into execution, 316 PERILS OF THE DEEP. by lashing together a number of the larger sparsFull of hope, they endeavoured to launch it, andhad the anguish of seeing it dashed into fragmentsby the waves. Made desperate by the failure, five ofthe men embarked on a few small timbers feebly tiedtogether, and, bidding adieu to their companions, were swept away by the current and drowned beforetheir eyes.. On that Friday afternoon, the coxswain came againin the whale-boat, and said that the Greek fishermenwould not venture in their boats from fear of theweather; neither would they lend them to him andhis comrades. He encouraged them to hope, how-ever, that, as the weather was moderating, the boatswould come on the morrow. While he was speaking, REEFS AND SANDBANKS. 317 more than a dozen of the men plunged into the seain the desperate hope of reaching the boat. Two gotso far that they were taken in ; but one was drowned, while the others were compelled to return to the rock.Had but half of them reached the whale-boat, shewould have swamped, and the destruction of thewhole of the crew would have been certain. When the sixth morning dawned upon the rock, there were but few of the survivors capable ofmaking the least exertion for their safety. Butsuccour had come at

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