106 
[Sept. I. 
Plagiarisms of Lord Byron detected. 
62. 
“ The sun rose red and fiery, a sure sign 
Of the continuance of the gale ; to run 
lief ore the sea” until it should grow fine, 
Was all that for the present could be done : 
“ A few tea-spoonfuls of their rum and 
wine, 
Were serv’d out to the people,—&c. 
63. 
i: They counted thirty, crowded in a 
space 4 
Which left scarce room for motion or ex¬ 
ertion ; 
They did their best to modify their case. 
One half sate up, though numb’d with the 
immersion, 
While f other half were laid down in their 
place, 
At watch and watch: thus shivering like 
the tertian 
Ague in its cold fits, they fill’d their boat 
With nothing but the sky for a great-coat.” 
' 66. 
<c ’Tis thus with people in an open beat, 
They live upon the love of life,” &c. 
70. 
(< So Juan’s spaniel, spite of his entreat- 
ing, 
Was kill’d, and portioned cut for present 
eating. 
71. 
On the sixth day they fed upon his hide, 
And Juan who had still refused, because 
The creature was his father’s dog that died, 
Now feeling all the vulture in his jaws, 
With some remorse received (though first 
denied) 
As a great favour one o f the fore-paws. 
Which he divided with pedrillo, who 
Devour’d it, longing for the other too. 
73; 
“ And out they spoke of lots for fiesh 
and blood, 
And who should die to behisfellow's food.” 
74. 
“ But ere they came to this, they that 
day shav’d 
Some leathern caps, and what remain’d of 
shoes.” 
75. 
“ And the lot fell on Juan’s luckless tutor.” 
76. 
“ He but requested to be bled to death : 
The surgeon had his instruments, and bled 
Pedrillo.” 
77. 
<c The surgeon, as there w r as no other fee, 
Had his first choice of morsels for his pains; 
But being thirstiest at the moment, he 
Preferr'd a draught from the fast-forcing 
veins : 
79. 
The consequence was awful in the ex¬ 
treme ; 
62. 
(( The sun rose red and fiery, a su re in¬ 
dication of a severe gale of wind,”—“ We 
could do nothing more than run before the 
sea,”—“ 1 served a tea-spoonful of rum to 
every person.” 
Voyage of Capt.Bligh, fyc. 
63. 
“ As our lodging was very wretched and 
confined for want of room, I endeavoured 
to remedy this defect by putting ourselves 
at watch and watch ; so that one half al¬ 
ways sate up, while the other half lay down 
in the bottom of the boat , with nothing to 
cover us but the heavens." ib. 
& 
66 . 
“ The love of life, which, I believe, was 
never exhibited.” 
70, 71. 
“Now, however, when Mr. Byron was 
at home with his dog,'a party came to the 
door, telling him their necessities were 
such, that they must eat the deg, or starve. 
In spite of Mr. B.’s desire to preserve the 
faithful animal, they took him away by 
force, and killed him. Thinking he was 
entitled to a share, he sat down and par¬ 
took of their repast. Three weeks after¬ 
wards, recollecting the spot where the dog 
was killed, he went to it, and was glad to 
make a meal of the paws and skin.” 
Loss of Wager man of war . 
73, 1 74. 
“ And again being driven to distress for 
want of food, they soaked their shoes, and 
two hairy caps which were among them, in 
the water*; whichbeing rendered soft, each 
partook of them. But day after day hav¬ 
ing passed; and the craving-s of hunger 
pressing hard upon them, they fell upon 
the horrible and dreadful expedient of eat¬ 
ing each other, and to prevent any conten¬ 
tion about who should become the food of 
others, they cast lots.” 
. Narrative of the dreadfu( catastrophe of 
the ship Thomas, of Liverpool, in 1797. 
75,76,77. 
When he on whom the lot fell, with manly 
fortitude resigned his life, with the persua¬ 
sion of his body becoming the means of ex¬ 
istence to liis companions in distress, but 
solicited that he might be bled to death , 
(the surgeon being with them , and having 
his case of instruments in his pocket when 
he left the ship) ; no sooner had the fatal 
instrument touched the vein, than the ope¬ 
rator applied his parched lips and drank 
of the blood that fowed. ib. 
I V* 
“ Those who glutted themselves with 
human 
