A narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, in an overland journey to India, abstracted from capt. Campbell's 'Letters to his son' [by S.J.].1797 |
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Page 261 - I kept my eyes almoft conftantly upon her; and I declare to God, that I could not perceive, either in her countenance or limbs, the leaft trace of either horror, fear, or even hefitation : her countenance was perfectly cornpofed and placid ; and Ihe was not, I am pofitive, either intoxicated or ftupified.
Page 174 - I mould have thought dreadful. Death feemed inevitable ; and all that occurred to me now to do, was to accelerate it, and get out of its pangs as...
Page 105 - ... that it would neither be in character, nor have any good effect, and that if I prefumed to fpeak, my guide would be obliged in my defence to give me a flogging in order to prevent • fufpicion.
Page 166 - This gleam of happiness continued net long : a tremendous sea rolling after us, broke over our stern, tore every thing betore it, stove in the steerage, carried away the rudder, shivered the wheel to pieces, and tore up the very ringbolts of the deck : conveyed the men who stood at the wheel forward, and swept them overboard. I was standing at the time near the wheel, and fortunately had hold of the taffarel, which, enabled me to resist in part the weight of the wave. I was, however, swept off my...
Page 260 - ... the pile, above where the woman lay, a potful of fomething that appeared to me to be oil ; after this they heaped on more wood, to the height of about four feet above where the bodies were built in; fo that all I now faw was a ftack of fire-wood.
Page 161 - Captain, raving, ftamping, and tearing his hair in handfuls from his head— here, fome of the crew were caft upon their knees, clapping their hands, and praying, with all the extravagance of horror painted in their faces— there, others were flogging their images with all their might, calling upon them to allay the ftorm.
Page 176 - I made a convulfive fpring, and ran up a little diftance on the fhore ; but was fo weak and worn down by fatigue, and fo unable to clear my ftomach of the fait water with which it was loaded, that I fuddenly grew deadly fick, and apprehended that I had only exchanged one death for another ; and in a minute or two fainted away.
Page 258 - They firft began by driving fome upright ftakes into the ground, and then built up the middle to about the height of three feet and a half with billets of wood.
Page 86 - Jauiffaries themfelves, were often made the fport of his fury ; that he was not more reflrained in the efFufions of obfcenity which he uttered, than in his fatire; that he was always well received and applauded, even venerated (as we venerate the liberty of the...
Page 259 - ... had then a yellow cloth rolled partially round her. They put fome red colour, about the fize of a fixpence, on the centre of her forehead, and rubbed fomething that appeared to me to be clay. She was then led to the pile, round which...