[30] Air-boats with life lines and floats suspended from their gunwales.
[31] As this goes to press I add a few extracts from a report in the “Timesâ€� of December 8, 1854, of the loss of the troop ship “Charlotteâ€� and 117 lives in Algoa Bay, September 20th:—
“*** On the life-boat coming alongside it was found that every one on board was completely paralysed, or overcome by the calamity. *** Three separate times the life-boat pulled alongside, but there was no one in a position even to cast a line to it. *** A great number threw themselves overboard. Some were fortunate enough to reach the shore, but the majority were drowned.�
This ship was apparently in a position favourable for the preservation of life, had confidence existed.
[32] These remarks were written previous to the loss of the “Arctic.�
[33] I trust the reader will understand that if I omit to write seriously of my feelings on recovery from a death-bed, it is because I consider a work like this no place for them.
[34] Extensive fields of good serviceable coal have been discovered in Southern Oregon.—Author.
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| that encirled them => that encircled them {pg 98} must be re-remembered=> must be remembered {pg 175} thet he was induced=> that he was induced {pg 204} It is generallly inferred=> It is generally inferred {pg 276} the valley is is about=> the valley is about {pg 435} I shall speak by and and bye=> I shall speak by and bye {pg 68} |