Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828, Part 1 |
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Page 67 - Island, it might be inferred from the many statements that have been made, is particularly unhealthy, from its location. This, I think, cannot be the case. Though a dreary and uninteresting sand bar, I believe it to be as healthy as Galveston, or any other spot along the Gulf coast.
Page 17 - Remember, I know in Whom I have believed, and that He holds the winds in His fist, and the waters in the hollow of His hand.
Page 7 - ... climbed into it, (without feeling that, in doing so, I broke my shins severely,) to give my assistance ; and when we were just ready to despair, the yawl eased and rose, no one knew how, and was over the side, and floating in the water, more quickly, the seamen said, than they had ever before seen it. " Captain Dacre had already affirmed, in answer to my inquiries, that the two boats could not carry all the ship's company, passengers, and crew; (and, under other circumstances, we should not have...
Page 12 - ... awoke, as though it did not belong to me ; a bathe in the sea-water restored the circulation. " In the morning we again weighed anchor, and in a few hours came in sight of the flag-staff of one of the forts of the harbor of Trincomallee : the wind was unfavorable, and we could not get into the harbor ; we therefore sent our smaller boat, with four of the best seamen and the purser, to give information of our circumstances. It was a good distance, and the men were weary ; but within two or three...
Page 9 - ... again see the light of day, or set our feet on solid ground, seemed to absorb our faculties and feelings : for some time the silence was scarcely broken, and I doubt not that many, like myself, were engaged in thoughts most suitable to immortal beings on the brink of eternity, — in self-examination, and in prayer. " The number of persons in the two boats was forty-eight ; and all, with the exception of the two ladies, who, I must observe, bore these awful circumstances with extraordinary fortitude,...
Page 13 - ... scarcely able to stand, from the mingled emotions excited in my mind. " We soon stepped into the boats, answering the numerous and kind inquiries of the officers, and enjoying the slight refreshment of fruit, &c., they had brought with them. The men pulled hard at their oars : we soon entered the...
Page 32 - India ; and in a country so extensive, where the roads are commonly little more than tracks, through swamp and jungle, where bridges are comparatively rare, and the passes of the mountains not unfrequently impracticable to any beast of burden without extreme difficulty and danger, experience has fully established its necessity. Travelling on horseback is the only alternative ; and with this mode, tents are required : the stages, too, must be short, unless the traveller can bear exposure to the dews...
Page 10 - ... occasionally gave a simultaneous ' hurra,' to cheer each other, and to keep up our spirits. " The ' Tanjore' must have risen in the water, as it gradually consumed : we saw it burning the whole night, and at daybreak could distinguish a column of smoke arising from it, — which, however, soon ceased ; and we saw and heard no more of our favorite ship. Some months afterwards, during my residence at Negapatam, on the Coromandel coast, about three hundred miles from the spot where the disaster...
Page 6 - ... The rain soon began to descend in torrents, and drove all on deck to seek shelter in the cuddy, or below : the storm increased ; and flash after flash of lightning following each other in such quick succession, that, with little interruption, it would have been possible to read by the glare. 30 " I sat in the cuddy, watching the storm, till past eight o'clock, when a flash which illuminated the whole hemisphere, and was accompanied with loud cracking, and a tremendous noise, struck the ship,...
Page 171 - Wallajahbad he was awakened to a sense of his sin and danger, and that at the second visit he found peace to his troubled conscience in receiving the sacrament.