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Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: Boston, W. J. Reynolds & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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having expended its fury, as thesun rises, the gale abates, and the survivors, among whom is thecherished friend, effect a landing. The island is uninhabited by man, but abounding in all thecharms and luxuries of nature. Around the coral shores grows the cocoa palm. The Indians nut aloneIs clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can,Boat, cable, sail, and needle, all in one. The interior is composed of mountain, stream, valley, lawns,and deep dells; and among the spicy groves, birds of tunefulsong and gorgeous plumage fly. The fat and juicy turtlegrazes on the sea-grass of the strand; the ponds abound withrice, and the uplands with the sweet yam ; a dessert is foundin the milky cocoa-nut, the melting plantain fruit, the lusciousmango, mangosteen, and pine-apple. Under a pretty clump ofpalm-trees they build a hut of bamboos, the sides wattled withratans, the roof thatched with cadjan leaves, and the wicker doorinterwoven with split reeds. Here they sing, and pray, and keepcalm Sabbaths.
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To such a solitary paradise the imagination may fondly tracethe unknown fate of one who left his home for distant shores,and wis never heard of more. What spell is in those words, teas never heard of more,*9 Vlll INTRODUCTION. to enchain the imagination as they do? Why has the vague andmournful fate of Mungo Park more power to wake our humansympathies than all the detailed horrors of an authenticatedmartyrdom ? How does the curious fancy follow him throughsavage wilds and unknown perils, and wander like a mournfulghost round the spot where the last faint traces of his pilgrimageare lost in dark and horrible rumors of murder and treachery! Who does not love to ponder on the romantic fate of La Pe-rouse, as circumstantially told by the fragments of his vessels,and the traditions of the islanders where he was wrecked, afterbeing enveloped in profound mystery for forty years! But what shipwreck, however fearful its relation, can havemore intense interest in ones eyes than these words, cop

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