72 . THE SANDY QUAY. 
Young Heywood seized a plank, and was 
swimming towards a small sandy quay about 
three miles off, when a boat took him up, and 
conveyed him thither. He afterwards sent home 
to his dear sister Nessy, from the ship Hector, 
in which he was confined as a prisoner, two 
clever little sketches, which are in existence, 
being within a circumference not larger than 
that of an ordinary watch-glass. The one re- 
presents the Pandora sinking, as he must have 
caught a view of her from his plank. The other 
depicts the survivors on the sandy quay, which 
was scarcely ninety yards long by* sixty yards 
wide : where, under the meridian, and almost ver- 
tical, sun, the only shelter the prisoners had was 
to bury themselves up to the necks in the burn- 
ing sand. They were on this miserable spot 
for nineteen days. Captain Edwards had tents, 
made from the boat-sails, erected for himself and 
his people. The prisoners petitioned him for an 
old sail, part of the wreck, which was lying use- 
less ; but it was refused. He seems to have been 
needlessly severe and harsh to men who had not 
yet been declared guilty, and who had an un- 
doubted right to the common offices of humanity 
and respect. But there are those in every age 
who find no pleasure in showing kindness to 
the unfortunate, whilst they are lavish of their 
attentions to the prosperous and happy. 
The only article saved by Heywood, on his 
escape from the wreck, was a Common Prayer- 
book, which, in swimming from the Pandora, he 
held between his teeth. It is a small Oxford 
edition of the year 1774. It has " P.H." written 
