CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. CXV 



pected pause gave us some hopes that she might 

 remain waterlogged; and I said to a gentleman 

 standing by me, I do not despair of seeing her 

 at to-morrow's dawn. But she tarried only for 

 a few minutes. Her forepart then appeared to 

 rise up perpendicularly. She sank gradually 

 lower and lower. We saw her last light ex- 

 tinguished in the w r ater ; and then all was still, 

 for there was no wind in the heavens ; and so 

 easy was her descent into the " chambers of the 

 deep," that it caused no apparent temporary 

 whirlpool on the place which she had just oc- 

 cupied. Thus foundered the Pollux steamer, 

 with all her goods and property on board. Not 

 a spar, not a plank, not a remnant of any thing 

 was left behind her. Many were of opinion 

 that she floated not more than ten minutes from 

 the time that she received her death blow ; 

 others again conjectured that she remained a 

 short half hour : probably, some sixteen or 

 eighteen minutes will not be far from the 

 mark. 



All our hopes of safety now depended upon 

 the Monjibello. But the worst was apprehended, 

 knowing that she herself must have received a 

 tremendous shock at the time that she ran the 



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