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Description: Shipwreck of the 'Sea Adventure' (see w:Sea Venture) Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches) Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders Year: 1876 (1870s) Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Page 293 Sea Adventure Design: A.R. Waud Engraving: King

Text Appearing Before Image: makethem. The shipsprung a leak, ormany leaks fromevery joint almost,^ having spued outher Oakum, and this fresh calamity, the news of which,* imparting no lesseterrour than danger,ranne through thewhole Ship withmuch fright andamazement, seemed as a wound giuento men that were be-fore dead. Yet theyfought bravely fortheir lives, passen-gers as well as seamen. The common sort stripped naked, as menin Gallies, the easier both to hold out, and to shrinke from vnder the salt water, Avhich continually leapt in among them, kept their eyes waking, and their thoughts and hands working, with tyred bodies, and wasted spirits, three dayes and foure nights destitute of outward comfort, and desperate of any deliuerance, testifying how mutually willing they were, yet by labour to keepe each other from drowning ;albeit each one drowned while he laboured. The heavens looked soblack upon them during all this time, that not a star was seen by night, nor the sun by day; but on the last night of their terrible Text Appearing After Image: Shipwreck of the Sea Adventure. 294 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XL struggle with the winds and waves, Sir George Somers saw, and called others to see, an apparation of a little round light, like a faint Starre, trembling and streaming along with a sparkling blaze, halfe the height vpon the Maine Mast, and shooting sometimes from Shroud to Shroud, tempting to settle as it were vpon any of the foure Shrouds :and for three or four houres together, or rather more, halfe the night it kept with vs, running sometimes along the Maine yard to the very end, and then returning but vpon a sodaine, towards the morning watch they lost of it, and knew not what way it made. So the boatswain in Shakespeares Tempest heard the bowlingsfrom within the ship, louder than the weather ; so Mirandaspeares bcsought her wizard father to allay the war of the wild waters,when the sea mounted to the sky and dashed the fire out, asshe saw the brave ship dashed all to pieces ; so Ariel flamed amaze-ment,

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