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some of whom, particularly of those belonging chap. 
to the Guards, we had the misfortune to find > '/ _■ 
desperately wounded. The sight of many of spectacle 
our gallant officers, in a wounded state, or SeTatage* 
brought from the shore incapable of service from °* ^^ '""■ 
the injuries of the climate, presented a revolting 
picture of the ravages of war. One day, leaning 
out of the cabin window, by the side of a 
wounded officer who was employed in fishing, 
the corpse of a man, newly sewed in a ham- 
mock, started half out of the water, and slowly 
continued its course, with the current, towards 
the shore. Nothing could be more horrible: 
its head and shoulders were visible, turning 
first to one side, then to the other, with a move- 
ment so solemn and awful, that one might have 
imagined it was impressed with some dreadful 
secret of the deep, which, from its watery grave, 
it came upward to reveal'. Such sights were 
afterwards more common; hardly a day passing 
without ushering the dead to the contemplation 
of the living, until at length they passed with- 
out our observation. Orders were afterwards 
(1) Precisely in the same manner, the corpse of Carraccioli rose and 
floated in the Bay of Naples, and was seen coming to Naples, swimming 
half out of the water. " A fact so extraordinary," says Mr. Southey, 
" astonished tlie King, and perhaps excited some feelings of superstitious 
fear, akin to regret." See Soufh.c//'s Life of Nelson, vol. II. p. 53. Lond. 
1813. 
