Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada














There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves: He raised his head sometimes, looked before us, and uttered a cry of recognition, which was responded to by a voice that came nearer and nearer. We were not a hundred feet from the burning focus, the light of which increased and dazzled our eyes. And that it did exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency which disposes the human mind in favour of the!

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