Robert Stephen Hawker,
Once a Week
(1863)
“ Among other crimes, it is said that he once buried the captain of a wrecked vessel, whom he found exhausted on the beach, alive. At the death of the old man, it was told that a vessel came down channel and lay-to off Melluach, in a tremendous sea. At Mawgan’s last gasp, the doom-ship went to sea suddenly against the wind, and was seen no more. I. ’Twas a fierce night when old Mawgan died! Men shudder’d to hear the rolling tide: The wreckers fled far from the awful shore,— They had heard strange voices amid the roar! ”
