218 THE WHALE AND 



Protracted Sufferings. A strange, eventful Story. 



uncertainties of the sea. They have never 

 since been heard from, the. island being seldom 

 visited. 



On the 27th of December, the three boats, 

 with the remainder of the men, put away to- 

 gether for the Island of Juan Fernandez, at a 

 distance of two thousand miles. The mate's 

 boat was taken up by the Indian, of London, 

 on the 19th of February, ninety-three ^tys 

 from the time of the catastrophe, with only 

 three living survivors. 



The captain's boat was fallen in with by the 

 Dauphin, of Nantucket, on the 23d of the same 

 month, having only two men living, whose lives 

 had been eked out onlyjthrdttgh that last resort 

 of hunger in the wretcffed, which words shud- 

 der to relate ! Out t>? a crew of twenty, five 

 only survived to make the ear of the world tin- 

 gle at their strange, eventful story. 



There is one other instance of the immediate 

 shipwreck of a whaler by the shock of those 

 mighty leviathans, that of the Union, of Nan- 

 tucket, Captain Gardner, which was totally 

 lost, in the year 1807, between Nantucket and 

 the Azores, by a similar concussion. A mer- 

 chant brig, plying between Panama and one of 



