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a heavy sea. They spoke schooner Pescador, and told them their 

 condition. With all their pumping and bailing, they could not gain 

 on the leak, and the crew were determined not to remain on board 

 another night. The tide v swept them down to leeward of the Pesca- 

 dor, and efforts were made to speak her again, but they could not 

 reach her. Their movements were seen on board the Pescador, and. 

 upon asking them to send their boat to take them off, they did so at 

 once. When they left the Sachem the water was eighteen inches 

 above the forecastle floor. At 2 P. M., she rolled over on her side, 

 raised herself once, then plunged under, head foremost, the master 

 and crew feeling thankful to God that they had escaped and were 

 safely on board the good schooner Pescador. 



A LITTLE CHILD FOUND FLOATING IN A BOX. 



From Capt. Samuel Elwell, master of the schooner Belvidere, we 

 learned the particulars of one of the most singular verifications of a 

 dream which has ever come under our notice. 



On Sunday morning, July 21st, 1872, soon after breakfast, while 

 the vessel was crossing Georges, Capt. Elwell, not feeling very well, 

 concluded he would go down below and " turn in." This he did, and, 

 after getting asleep, dreamed that he saw a dead body afloat on the 

 water. All his efforts to secure it proved unavailing, and it finally 

 passed under the counter of the vessel. His dream seemed so much 

 like reality, and his efforts to secure the body, and disappointment in 

 not being enabled to do so, caused him to awake, and, upon going on 

 deck, found it impossible to convince himself that he had not actually 

 witnessed the scene so vividly portrayed in the dream. It made such 

 an impression upon him that he felt intuitively that something out of 

 the common course would soon occur. The crew, noticing his great 

 uneasiness, asked the cause, and he told them of the dream, and they 

 endeavored to convince him that dreams were nothing but fancies of 

 the tired brain, and tried to withdraw h'is mind from the subject ; but 

 all of no avail. 



About half an hour after the captain had come on deck, he no- 

 ticed a box some distance ahead, floating upon the water. Upon sail- 

 ing up to it he made endeavors to get it on board, but it eluded his 

 grasp, and went under the counter of the vessel. They sailed on, 

 but the captain was uneasy, and finally gave orders to put about, and 

 secure the box. This was done, and, upon opening it, there was 

 found the body of a little girl, about four years of age, who had ap- 

 parently been dead some ten days. It was lying upon seaweed, 



