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he must have known that it was low water, and the whole of the Dutchman's Bank was 

 dry within a few yards of them, and the tide just setting on to it, there can be no reason 

 to doubt that he might have been by this means instrumental in saving many of the 

 unhappy victims as well as himself." 



One of the survivors stated that after the vessel had struck several times his wife 

 and some friends came to him, and asked if he thought they must be lost. " I thought/* 

 said he, " we should, and they proposed going to prayer for the short time we had to 



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live. We all went to prayer, myself and wife in particular, and when we got from our 

 knees I saw four men getting upon the mast, and beginning to fasten themselves to it. 

 I told my wife I would look out for a better situation for us. I took her towards the 

 windlass, and began to fasten a rope to the frame where the bell hung ; and when I had 

 got the rope made fast, and looked back for my wife, she had again joined our friends 

 near to the place at which we kneeled down. A great wave almost took me overboard, 

 but I held by the rope ; then came a second and a third wave before I could see my 

 wife again ; and when I looked they were all gone.* 



" I then prepared to die myself in the place I was at, and remained in that situation 



* ride " Letters, &c., on the Loss of the Rothsay Castle."' By the Kev. J. H. Stewart. 



