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For they who were most ravenous in the act, 
Went raging mad.” 
u And with hyseua laughter, died despair¬ 
ing.” 
82. 
“ All except Juan, who throughout ab- 
, stained, 
Chewing a piece of bamboo and some 
lead 
84. 
And the same night there fell a shower 
of rain, 
For which their mouths gaped. 
85. ° 
It pour’d down torrents, but they were 
no richer 
Until they found a ragged piece of sheet, 
Which serv'd them as a sort of spongy 
pitcher. 
87. 
There were two fathers in this ghastly 
crew, 
And with them their two sons, of whom the 
one 
Was more robust and hardy to the view, 
But he died early ; and when he was gone, 
His nearest messmate told his sire, who 
threw 
One glance on him, and said a Heaven’s 
will be done! 
I can do nothing ,” —- and he saw him 
thrown 
Into the deep, without a tear or groan. 
88 . 
The other father had a weaklier child, 
Ot a soft cheek, and aspect delicate j 
But the boy bore up long, and with a mild 
And patient spirit, held aloof his fate 5 
Little he said, and now and then he smil’d, 
As if to win a part from off the weight 
He saw increasing on his father’s heart, 
With the deep deadly thought, that they 
must part. 
89. 
And o’er him bent his sire, and never 
rais’d 
His eyes from off his face, , but wiped the 
foam 
From his pale lips , and ever on him gaz’d, 
■And when the wish'd-fov shower at length 
was cane , 
And the boy’s eyes, which the dull film half 
glazed, 
Brightened, and for a moment seem'd to 
roam, 
He squeezed from out a rag some drops of 
rain 
Into his dying child's mouth-—hut in vain. 
90. 
Jhe boy expired —the father held the clay, 
And look'd upon it long, and when at last 
Death left no doubt, and the dead burden 
lay 
Stiff on his heart, and pulse and hope were 
past. 
He watch'd it wistfully, until awaif 
Twas borne by the wide waves wherein 
’twas east 5 
human flesh and human gore, and whose 
stomachs retained the unusual food, soon 
perished with raging insanity. ib. 
82. 
Another expedient we had frequent re¬ 
course to, finding it supplied our mouths 
with temporary moisture, was chewing any 
substance we could find, generally a bit of 
cauvas, or even lead, when we could get 
any. Mackay’s n arrative of the skipivreck 
of the J uno , on the coast ofAracan. 
84, 85. 
In the evening there came on a squall 
which in all probability proved fatal to 
them, though to us. it brought the most 
seasonable relief, as it was accompanied 
with heavy rain 5 we had no means of 
catdiingit but bj^ spread ing out our clothes; 
and we afterwards reserved one part of our 
clothes for catching the fresh water. When¬ 
ever a heavy shower afforded us a few 
mouthfuls of fresh water, either by catch¬ 
ing’the drops as they tell, or squeezing 
them out of our clothes. ib. 
87, 88, 89, 90. 
Some struggled hard, and died in great 
agony : but it was not always those, w hose 
strength was most impaired, that died the 
easiest, though in some cases it might be 
so. I particularly remember the following 
instances :— Mr. Wade’s boy, a stout, 
healthy lad, died early, and almost without 
a groan 5 while another of the same age, 
but of less promising appearance, held out 
much longer. The fate of these unfortu¬ 
nate boys differed also in another respect 
highly deserving ot notice. Their fathers 
were both in the foretop, when the boys 
were taken ill. The father of Mr. Wade’s, 
hearing of his son’s illness, answered, that 
u ke could do nothing ”—and left him to 
his late. TLne other, when the accounts 
reached him, hurried down, and watching* 
for a favourable moment, crawled on all 
fours along the weather gun w ale, to his 
son, who was in the tnizen riggiug: by 
that time only three or four planks of the 
quai ler-ueck remained, just over the wea¬ 
ther-quarter gallery ; and to this spot the 
unhappy man led his son, making him fast 
to the rail, to prevent his being washed 
away. Whenever the boy was seized with 
a lit ot reaching*, the lather lifted him up, 
and wiped away the foam from his lips ; 
and if a shower came, he made him open 
Ins mouth to receive the drops, or gently 
squeezed, them into it from a rag. In this 
affecting situation, both remained four or 
five days, till the boy expired. The unfor¬ 
tunate parent, as if unwilling to believe the 
tact, raised the body, gazed wishfully at 
it, and token he could no longer entertain, 
any doubt, watched it in silence , till it was 
carried off by the sea ; then wrapping him¬ 
self up in a piece of canvass, sunk downand 
rose no more, though he must have lived 
