The narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen: who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the island of Celebes ; containing an interesting account of their sufferings ... ; also an account of the manners and customs of the country ... ; Together with an introduction, and an appendix. Containing narratives of various escapes from shipwrecks ... holding out a valuable seaman's guide ... / [Ed. by W. Vaughan].

Woodard, D. N. (David N.)

Date:: 1805

Credit: The narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen: who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, and surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the island of Celebes ; containing an interesting account of their sufferings ... ; also an account of the manners and customs of the country ... ; Together with an introduction, and an appendix. Containing narratives of various escapes from shipwrecks ... holding out a valuable seaman's guide ... / [Ed. by W. Vaughan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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age No. XU. NARRATIVE OF CAPT. KENNEDY’S LOSING HIS VESSEL AT SEA, AND HIS DISTRESSES AFTERWARDS, COMMUNICATED TO HIS OWNERS. ‘© We sailed from Port Royal, in Jamaica, on the e1st day of December last [1768], bound for White- haven; but the twenty-third day having met with a hard gale at north, we were obliged to lay-to under a fore- sail for the space of ten hours, which.occasioned the vessel] to make more water than she could free with both pumps. Under this situation we set sail, in hopes of being able to make the island of Jamaica again, which from our reckoning we judged lay about ten leagues to the eastward. But in Icss than an hour’s time the water overflowed the lower deck; and we could scarcely get into the yawl (being thirteen in number) before the vessel sank 5 having only with much difficulty been able to take out a keg containing about sixteen pounds of | biscuit, ten pounds of cheese, and two bottles of wine; _ with which small pittance we endeavoured to make the land. But the wind continuing to blow hard from the north, and the sea running high, we were obliged, after an unsuccessful attempt of. three days, to bear away for Honduras, as the wind seemed to favour.us for that course, and it being the only visible means we | had of preserving our lives. On the seventh day we made Swan’s island ; but being destitute of a quadrant

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