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39. 
39. 
Under the vessel’s keel the sail was 
past, 
And for the moment it had some effect. 
41. 
But the ship labour'd so, they scarce 
could hope 
To weather out much longer ; the distress 
Was also great with which they had to cope 
For want of water. 
42. 
Again the weather threaten'd ,—again 
blew 
A gale, and in the fore and after-hold 
Water appear’d; yet though the people 
knew 
All this, the most were patient, and some 
bold, 
Until the chains and leathers were worn 
through 
Of all our pumps: 
43. 
Then came the carpenter at last, with tears 
In his rough eyes, and told the Captain, he 
Could do no more : 
44. 
The ship was evidently settling now 
Fast by the head ; 
45. 
Some lash'd them in their hammocks,some 
put on 
Their best clothes, 
And others went on as they had begun, 
Getting the boats out, 
47. 
But in the long-boat they contrived to 
stow 
Some pounds of bread, though injured by 
the wet, 
Water, a twenty gallon cask, or so, 
Six flasks of wine ; and they contrived to get 
A portion of their beef up from below, 
And with a piece, of pork, 
48. . 
The other boats, the yawl and pinnace, 
had 
Been stove, in the beginning of the gale : 
And the long boat’s condition was but bad, 
And there were but two blankets for a sail. 
And one oar for a mast. 
50. 
“ Some trial had been making at a raft, 
With little hope in such a rolling sea, 
A sort of thing at which one would have 
laugh’d, 
If any laughter at such times could be. 
Unless with people who too much have 
quaff’d, 
And have a kind of wild and horrid glee, 
Half epileptical and half hysterical:— 
Their preservation would have been a mi¬ 
racle.” Lord Byron. 
51. 
u At half-past eight o’clock, booms, hen¬ 
coops, spars, 
A nd all things , for a chance, had been cast 
loose , 
which was past under the ship's bottom, 
and, I thought, had some effect. 
Loss of Centaur man of war. 
41. 
The Centaur laboured so much, that I 
could scarce hope she would swim till 
morning ; our sufferings were very great 
for want of water. 
42. 
We had the mortification to find the wea¬ 
ther again threatened, and by noon it blew 
a storm. The ship laboured greatly ; the 
water appeared in the fore and after-hold, 
and increased. I was informed by the 
carpenter also , that the leathers were nearly 
consumed , and that the chains of the pumps 
by constant exertion and the friction, were 
rendered almost useless. 
43. 
A t length the carpenter came up from 
below, aud told the crew who were work¬ 
ing at the pumps, he could do no more for 
them. 
44. 
I perceived the ship settling by the head. 
ib. 
45. 
Some appeared perfectly resigned, went 
to their hammocks, and desired their mess¬ 
mates to lash them in. — ib. The most pro¬ 
minent idea was that of putting on their 
best and cleanest cloaths. The boats, of 
which we had three, were got over the 
side. ib. 
47. 
Eight bags of rice, six flasks of water, 
and a small quantity of salted beef and 
pork, were put into the long boat as provi¬ 
sions for the whole. 
Wreck of the ship Sydney. 
48. 
The yawl was stove alongside and sunk. 
Loss of Centaur man of war. 
One oar was erected for a main mast, and 
the other bent to the breadth of the blankets 
for a sail. 
Loss of Wellington transport. 
50. 
u As rafts had been mentioned by the 
carpenter, I thought it right to make the 
attempt. It was impossible for any man to 
deceive himself with the hopes of being 
saved on a raft in such a sea as this.” 
Loss of Centaur man of war, p. 164. 
51. 
“ Spars,booms,hencoops, and every thing 
buoyant, was therefore cast loose, that the 
