LOSS OF THE "EOYAL GEORGE." 



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even know their names; all that he knew was that his own name was Jack. His 

 preserver provided for him. 



One of the survivors,* who got through a porthole, looked back and saw the 

 opening "as full of heads as it could cram, all trying to get out. I caught/' said he, 



THE WRECK OF THE " ROYAL GEORGE." 



"hold of the best bower-anchor, which was just above me, to prevent falling back again 

 into the porthole, and seizing hold of a woman who was trying to get out of the same 

 porthole, I dragged her out." The same writer says that he saw "all the heads drop 

 back again in at the porthole, for the ship had got so much on her larboard side that the 

 starboard portholes were as upright as if the men liad tried to get out of the top of a 



* Mr. Ingram, whose narrative, printed in the little work before quoted, hears all the impress of truth. 



