“ None of the party had taken food before they left the ship, and hunger beginning to oppress them, they mixed the biscuit, of which they had about five and twenty pounds on board, with wine, and distributed it, in small portions to each man. ‘Such,’ says the narrator, ‘was our first repast, and the best we made during our whole abode upon the raft.’ They thought themselves, however, not quite lost: and the hope of speedy vengeance on those who had so basely deserted them, tended to revive their courage. ”

“ For many days this labour and sorrow continued, until at last, a ray of hope of their deliverance being at hand, cheered their weary souls on their reaching the northernmost Danish settlement, called Opiernawnck, in lat. 73 deg. The prospect of assistance here, proved however almost quite delusive—the poor residents, a man and his wife, having barely provisions for their own subsistence during the winter, so that all that they could do for them was to allow them to remain three days, to recruit their strength sufficiently to attempt the next station. ”

“ The boats pushed off in a line, towing the raft, and assuring the people on board that they would conduct them safely to land. They had not proceeded, however, above two leagues from the wreck when they, one by one, cast off the tow-lines. It was afterwards pretended that they broke: had this even been true, the boats might at any time have rejoined the raft; instead of which they all abandoned it to its fate, every one striving to make off with all possible speed. ”

“ A faint idea may be formed of the appalling difficulties and sufferings to which the Dutch crew were exposed, in their open boat for a period of nearly two months, during which they traversed an extent of nearly 600 miles, under circumstances of distress at which humanity shudders. ”

“ The fourth day was stormy, foggy, and w (illegible text) heavy seas, and the spray of the sea freezing (illegible text) it flew over the boats. All felt a depression (illegible text) spirits. In the commencement of the storm, (illegible text) cutter having shipped a heavy sea, was obliged to cast off the jolly-boat’s tow-rope; when (illegible text) was lost in a fog, which occasioned much distress, and particularly as she had on board considerable part of their stores, the quadrant and spy-glass. The men began to be dejected but were roused to duty and to exertion. ”

“ In such a deplorable situation, it was with difficulty they could persuade themselves that they had been abandoned; nor would they believe it until the whole of the boats had disappeared from their view. They now began to consider themselves as deliberately sacrificed, and swore to be revenged on their unfeeling companions, if ever they gained the shore. Their consternation soon became extreme. Every thing that was horrible took possession of their minds ”

“ The boats were drawn over large fields of ice, until a spot of open water could he found, in which, again afloat, they were soon impeded by the bay or lighter ice which formed around them, when the oars being no longer useful to them, nor the ice strong enough to allow their passage, the crew were compelled to remain in their boats till next day, when all was solid, to admit their being taken on the ice and dragged on as before. ”

“ Two days elapsed before the customary signals for the boats to come over could, from the state of the weather, be observed—and the miserable Dutchmen were compelled to remain during that time in the open air, without provisions. Several, it is understood, had fallen victims to this aggravated distress, while others died after reaching the settlement; and the survivors exhibited the lamentable effects of the intense frost, either by the loss of part or the whole of their toes and fingers, or of their limbs. ”

“ The following heart-rending particulars respecting the poor Dutchmen are from the Montrose Review:—The crew of the Dundee, as may well be supposed, suffered severe privations from want of provisions; they killed immense numbers of seals and bears, which formed a great portion of their food; but, what was to them a double calamity, they were burdened for a considerable time with the whole of their Dutch neighbours, who, from sheer want, obtruded themselves as guests, on Capt. ”

“ All hearts on board were melted with pity at their deplorable condition.—‘Let any one,’ say our unfortunate narrators, ‘figure to himself fifteen unhappy creatures almost naked, their bodies shrivelled by the rays of the sun, ten of them scarcely able to move our limbs stripped of their skin; a total change in all our features; our eyes hollow and almost savage ”

“ We lowered also on the ice six cwt of bread, and had scarcely effected our operations, when onwards with a tremendous crash came the ice-berg, cracking the ice in every direction. At this moment, a number of our men were behind the gigantic mass, and made certain that the vessel was crushed to atoms: in a short time however, they again saw her, and hailed her with three hearty cheers. ”

“ We are shocked to add, that such was the neglect and indifference of their ship mates who had arrived there in safety, that had it not been for the humane attention of Major Peddy and Captain Campbell, they would in a (illegible text) probability have experienced the fate of the (illegible text) unfortunate companions. Of the boats, two only (those in which the (illegible text) overnor and the captain of the frigate had embarked) arrived at Senegal: the other four made (illegible text) e shore in different places, and landed their people. ”

“ AT SEA.
A Winter in Greenland.
The ship Dundee of London, arrived at Lerwick in May 1827, from Davis' Straits, after having experienced the greatest hardships during a severe winter, in a place where man never wintered before. Commander David Duncan.
She was beset in lat. 74, 30, and was liberated in lat. 63; she drove, in one solid body of ice, from August 23, 1826, till April 16, 1827. The Haarlem Dutch ship, of Herlingen, was lost close by the Dundee, on August 23. The crew saved no provisions, but came (to the number of 40) on board of her, from the 23rd August to the 6th October ”

“ It now appeared that seventeen men had clung to the wreck when boats and raft departed; their (illegible text) st object had been to collect a sufficient quan (illegible text) biscuit, wine, brandy and pork for their (illegible text) stenance for a certain number of days. ”

“ Their sensations were at that moment interesting and affecting, and joy discovered itself in various ways. All joined with great devotion in thanks to Heaven for their miraculous escape. The schooner, being now within hai (illegible text) took both the boats in tow, and landed the crew in the evening at Island Cove, in Conception Bay.
The men could with great difficulty be restrained at first from taking large and repeated draughts of water ”

“ Several, on casting themselves off, said calmly to their companions, ‘I am going to seek for assistance, and you shall soon see me return..’
‘In the midst of this general madness,’ says the narrative, ‘one saw these unhappy men rushing upon their companions, sword in hand, and demanding from them the wing of a chicken (illegible text) appease the hunger that was preying upon (illegible text) em; others asked for their hammocks, that (illegible text) y might go between decks and get a little (illegible text) ep; many imagined themselves to be still on (illegible text) ard the Medusa. ”