62 THE SANDY QUAY. 
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-paper. The one re- 
presents the Pandwa sinking, as lie 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 then ver- 
tical, sun, the only shelter the prisoners had was 
to bury themselves up to their neck 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 useless : 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 undoubted right to the common 
offices of humanity and respect. But there are 
those in every age who find no pleasure in show- 
ing kindness to the unfortunate, but lavish all 
their regards on 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 1770, and contains, in the fly 
leaves, some of his handwriting, being chiefly 
