46 THE WHALE AND 



A Voyage Broken. Difference made by Christianity. 



dead, dressed the wounded, put the ship in or- 

 der, and made sail for the Christianized Sand- 

 wich Islands with the surviving crew. With a 

 skill and self-possession worthy of the man that 

 could accomplish such a rescue, and with a fa- 

 voring Providence, he navigated the bereaved 

 whaler to Oahu, where the survivors were hos- 

 pitably entertained. The ship, however, had to 

 be sent home, the voyage being completely bro- 

 ken up for want of the necessary officers, and 

 thousands of dollars lost to owners and under- 

 writers. 



I remember once to have listened to the nar- 

 rative of a captain who was wrecked in the Pa- 

 cific on a sunken rock, and for fourteen days and 

 nights himself and crew, twenty-two in number, 

 were exposed in their boats, and had quite given 

 up hope of ever again reaching the land. But 

 on the morning of the fifteenth day after the 

 loss of their ship, they found their boats nearing 

 an unknown island. They were almost spent, 

 and saw the shore, which was guarded by a reef, 

 lined with natives, whether cannibals or Chris- 

 tianized they could not tell. 



While their lives were in doubt, and they 

 were questioning whether a worse death by 



