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A VISIT TO THK INDIAN ARGHIPELAOO, 



seen some one in the like predicament before she wrote 

 ivhat so exactly describes our sensations : 



« Be stm, thou Be« l>iKl, with Iby clanging &j ; 

 lly spirit HJuketw thy wing swoapn by." 



Attacks fi*om these enoimonsi giills are not tuiiisuid. 

 In 1830, when tho Smingapatmn frigate %¥as on her way 

 to ValparaisDj after roiuuUng Cape Horn, and being under 

 close-reefed topsails, a man fell overboard : ho was unable 

 to swim, hut was fortunate in getting hold of the life-buoy, 

 to whieh he clung ; but he had acareely time to congra- 

 tulate himself on his good luck, before he was assailed by 

 an. mdookcd-for enemy in the albatross, who seemed to 

 consider him as their immediate property, A tap on the 

 head from one of thoii- lieaks might have finished poor 

 Jack's cai'cer; but, terrified at their formidable appear- 

 ance and equivocal intentionSj he attempted to defend 

 himself with his shoe ; this, without much difficulty, they 

 had just torn from his gra^p, when the boat arrived to his 

 rescue. 



Wall is was a general favourite, and tho sliip's company 

 requested they might be allowed to send a day's pay to 

 his widowed mother, who wa^ entirely dependent on him 

 for support.* 



On the SOtli May wo arrived at Sincapore, after an 

 excellent passage of three months and five days, includmg 

 stoppages at Madeira and liio. 



* The {Uiknaijilcdgmcnl, with gnLkcful thdAkm^ from poor Mrs, WaUia, I 

 rctjulve<l a formoiitbH AfLcrwanii^, in a kttcr d'Ectatod froui bar ik&lk^licd. 



