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imagined , but cannot with any justice be painted by me , whose feelings shrink from the remembrance of such distress , and whose pen is inadequate to such a task . After driving all night in the supposition that we should soon get on shore , we were miserably deceived on the approach of day-light , when we could see no land ; however , knowinghow it lay , we laboured hard , and about three o ' clock on the 22 d got
on shore . Proceeding to the Southward , we found the poop had driven on shore with sixty people on it , among whom were five of the ladies , and several gentlemen , who , particularly the former , were , from the variety of distress they had undergone , objects of commiseration and pity ^ they could not give any account of the captain ; but I have since the star
learned from the carpenter , that , after the poop went away , - board side of the wreck floated broadside up , and Captain Dundas was washed through the quarter-gallery and seen no more . The rest of the people got on shore , some on small p ieces of the wreck , which drifted nearer in shore , others in canoes , with which the natives came off to plunder the remains of the shipbut it was not till Sundaythe
, , 26 th , that the last of them landed . Many things drove on the beach , but whatever was of any value the natives secured , threatening every one who attempted to oppose them with death , and , whenever they met with an opportunity , they plundered and stripped cur people . This disposition of the natives , with the loss of our boats , rendered it
utterly impossible-to save any part of the treasure or cargo . In a few days the whole of the survivors arrived at Tulliar , the residence of the King of Baba , to whom every praise and credit is due for his kind and humane treatment to us , from our first arrival till the melancholy and reduced number of the Winterton ' s crew were taken off the island . — Captain Dundas , Mr . Chambers , three young ladies , with seamen and soldiersto the amount of 48 were drowned . For some d & ys we re ,
, , mained in a state of the most anxious suspence for the fate of the yawl , as it was on her safety alone we could found the most distant hope of relief , as the season was so far advanced as to preclude the probability of any vessel touching at the Bay till the next year . Her arrival at length in the river of Tulliar relieved us from the most painful anxiety . We got her up to the town , and kept a guard over her , to prevent the
natives setting fire to her , which they certainly would have done ( for the iron work ) had it been at any distance from the King ' s residence . And now , at a consultation of the officers , it was agreed that-I should go to Mosambique to procure a vessel , and that every person should exert himself to get the boat in readiness as soon as possible . From want of tools & c . the carpenters were unable to do any thing more
., than put a false keel upon her , and with the burthen boards rose her about five inches forward . As- to sails we managed tolerably well . Most fortunately a compass had been put in the boat the evening of the 20 th of August , and a quadrant had been picked up in the beach , but we could not procure a chart , or a single book of navigation ; a small geographical grammar , which I obtained , from one of the soU
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A Narrative
imagined , but cannot with any justice be painted by me , whose feelings shrink from the remembrance of such distress , and whose pen is inadequate to such a task . After driving all night in the supposition that we should soon get on shore , we were miserably deceived on the approach of day-light , when we could see no land ; however , knowinghow it lay , we laboured hard , and about three o ' clock on the 22 d got
on shore . Proceeding to the Southward , we found the poop had driven on shore with sixty people on it , among whom were five of the ladies , and several gentlemen , who , particularly the former , were , from the variety of distress they had undergone , objects of commiseration and pity ^ they could not give any account of the captain ; but I have since the star
learned from the carpenter , that , after the poop went away , - board side of the wreck floated broadside up , and Captain Dundas was washed through the quarter-gallery and seen no more . The rest of the people got on shore , some on small p ieces of the wreck , which drifted nearer in shore , others in canoes , with which the natives came off to plunder the remains of the shipbut it was not till Sundaythe
, , 26 th , that the last of them landed . Many things drove on the beach , but whatever was of any value the natives secured , threatening every one who attempted to oppose them with death , and , whenever they met with an opportunity , they plundered and stripped cur people . This disposition of the natives , with the loss of our boats , rendered it
utterly impossible-to save any part of the treasure or cargo . In a few days the whole of the survivors arrived at Tulliar , the residence of the King of Baba , to whom every praise and credit is due for his kind and humane treatment to us , from our first arrival till the melancholy and reduced number of the Winterton ' s crew were taken off the island . — Captain Dundas , Mr . Chambers , three young ladies , with seamen and soldiersto the amount of 48 were drowned . For some d & ys we re ,
, , mained in a state of the most anxious suspence for the fate of the yawl , as it was on her safety alone we could found the most distant hope of relief , as the season was so far advanced as to preclude the probability of any vessel touching at the Bay till the next year . Her arrival at length in the river of Tulliar relieved us from the most painful anxiety . We got her up to the town , and kept a guard over her , to prevent the
natives setting fire to her , which they certainly would have done ( for the iron work ) had it been at any distance from the King ' s residence . And now , at a consultation of the officers , it was agreed that-I should go to Mosambique to procure a vessel , and that every person should exert himself to get the boat in readiness as soon as possible . From want of tools & c . the carpenters were unable to do any thing more
., than put a false keel upon her , and with the burthen boards rose her about five inches forward . As- to sails we managed tolerably well . Most fortunately a compass had been put in the boat the evening of the 20 th of August , and a quadrant had been picked up in the beach , but we could not procure a chart , or a single book of navigation ; a small geographical grammar , which I obtained , from one of the soU