Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... at the same time. I did not even know that either of them had been sick; and my first intimation of the fact was when 1 was told that their bodies were lying on the grating, on the upper deck. I there found them lying in the same clothes in which they had died. We procured a couple of blankets, and placed them around the bodies, previous to their interment. I applied For permission to accompany their remains to the land, and to assist in their burial; but this was denied me. I however watched their progress to the shore, and saw them deposited in the bank. Mr. Mitchell was generally known among'his fellow-citizens of Providence; and there are many now living who well recollect him. It will, at first, appear almost incredible, that my former companions, my friends and fellow-townsmen could be thus sick and dying, so near me, and I remain in profound ignorance of the fact. But such was, in reality, our situation in this little world of concentrated misery. We were separated and scattered over the different parts of the crowded hulk, and mingled with the great mass of the prisoners: and sometimes meeting each other, among the multitude, we would, on enquiring respecting the fate of an old comrade, receive the appalling information, that he had either been attacked by sickness and removed to one of the Hospital Ships; or had died, and gone to his last home under the bank of the Wallabout. CHAPTER XI. THE MARINE GUARD. "Remembrance shudders at this scene ofTenrs--'-Still in my Tiew some tyrant chief appears, "Some base-born Hessian slave walks threatening by, "Some servile Scot, with murder in his eye, "Still haunts my sight, as vainly they bemoan "Rebellions manag'd so unlike their own." "No waters laded...
