DANGEKS OF THE FISHERY. — ANECDOTES. S5i, 



beeu their delight, and how overpowering their 

 sensations, when at this most critical juncture a 

 ship appeared in sight ! She was advancing di- 

 rectly towards them ; their voices were extended, 

 and their flag displayed. But although it was im- 

 possible they should be heard, it was not impossible 

 they should be seen. Their flag v/as descried by the 

 people on board the ship, their mutual courses were 

 so directed as to form the speediest union, and in a 

 few minutes they found themselves en the deck of the 

 Lively of Whitby, under circumstances of safety ! 

 They received from their townsmen the warmest 

 congratulations ; and while each individual was for- 

 ward in contributing his assistance towards the 

 restoration of their benumbed bodies, each ap- 

 peared sensible that their narrow escape from death 

 was highly providential. The forbearance of God 

 is wonderful. Perhaps these very men, a few hours 

 before, were impiously invoking their own destruc- 

 tion, or venting imprecations upon their fellow-be- 

 ings ! True it is, that the goodness of the Almighty 

 extendeth over all his works, and that while " Mer- 

 cy is his darling attribute," — " Judgment is his 

 strange work." 



The Resolution of Whitby was moored to a flat 

 piece of ice, surrounded by streams and open drift-ice, 

 on the 30th of April 1808. In the evening, a whale 

 was harpooned, which took about the length of a 



