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[Aug. 1, 
Plagiarisms of Lord Byron detected. 
Despite of all their efforts and expedients 
But for the pumps; I’m glad to make them 
known 
To all the brother-tars that may have need 
hence ; 
For fifty tons of water were upthrown 
By them per hour, and they had all been 
undone 
But for the maker, Mr. Mann , of London. 
30. 
As day advanced, the weather seemed to 
abate, 
And then the leak they reckoned to re¬ 
duce. 
And keep the ship afloat , SfC. 
A gust, which all descriptive power tran¬ 
scends, 
Laid, with one blast, the ship on her beam- 
ends. 
31. 
There she lay, motionless, and seem'd 
upset; 
The water left the hold, and washed the 
decks, 
And made a scene men do not soon forget, 
&c. 
32. 
Immediately the masts were cut away, 
Both main and mizen; first the mizen 
went. 
The main-mast followed, but the ship still 
lay 
Like a mere log, and baffled our intent. 
Foremast and bowsprit were cut down, and 
they 
Eased her at last (although we never meant 
To part with all till every hope was 
blighted,) 
And thenwithviolence the old ship righted. 
35. 
Perhaps more mischief had been done, but 
for 
Our Juan, who, with sense beyond his 
years, 
Got to the spirit-room , and stood before 
It with a pair of pistols : and their fears, 
As if death were more dreadful by his door* 
Of fire and water, spite of oaths and tears 
Kept still aloof the crew, who, ere they 
sunk, 
Thought it ivould be becoming to die drunk. 
36. 
“ Give us more grog," they cried , “for 
it will be 
All one an hour hence;" Juan answered 
“ no ! 
’Tis true that death waits both for you and 
me, 
But let us die like men , not sink below 
Like brutes:”—and thus his dangerous 
post kept he, 
And none liked to anticipate the blow. 
38. 
The vessel swam, yet still she held her 
own, 
The stronger pump’d, the weaker thrumm'd 
a sail. 
pedients been attended with some success. 
The pumps, to the excellent construe!ion 
of which I owe my life, were made by Mr. 
Mann, of London. ib. 
30. 
As the next day advanced, the weather 
appeared to moderate, the men continued 
incessantly at the pumps, and every exer¬ 
tion was made to keep the ship afloat, ib. 
Scarce was this done, when a gust, exceed¬ 
ing in violence every thing of the kind I 
had ever seen, or could conceive, laid the 
ship on her beam ends. 
Loss of Centaur man 
31. 
The water forsook the hold, and appear¬ 
ed between decks, so as to fill the men’s 
hammocks to leeward, the ship lay motion¬ 
less, and to all appearance irrecoverably 
overset. ib. 
32. 
Immediate directions were given to cut 
away the main and mizen masts, trusting, 
when the ship was righted, to be able to 
wear her. On cutting one or two lanyards 
the mizen mast went over first, but without 
producing the smallest effect on the ship, 
and on cutting the lanyard of one shroud, 
the main mast followed. I had next the 
mortification to see also the foremast and 
bowsprit go over. On this the ship imme¬ 
diately righted. ib. 
of war. 
35. 
A midshipman was appointed to guard 
the spirit-room, to repress that unhappy 
desire of a devoted crew to die in a state 
of intoxication. The sailors, though in 
other respects orderly in conduct, here 
pressed eagerly upon him : 
Loss of Abergavenny E. Indiaman. 
36. 
“ Give us some grog," they exclaimed, 
“ it will be all one an hour hence .’’ “ I know 
we must die," replied the gallant officer , 
coolly, “ but let us die like fnen;" armed 
with a brace of pistols he kept his post even 
while the ship was sinking. ib. 
38. 
However, by great exertion of the chain 
pump and baling, ue held our own. All 
who were not seamen by profession had 
been employed in thrumming a sail, 
