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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in the boat drank large quantities of salt water, and they all died delirious—but those who avoided drinking it had no such symptoms.—[Vide dnnual Register for 1769, vol. Xil,, p- 190.] No. XIII. THREE SISTERS, NAZBY. “¢ THE Three: Sisters, Nazby, from Liverpool for Onega, was lost in lat. 71° North, long. 4° West, be- tween two pieces of ice, in which the vessel was entan- gled from the 8th to the 10th ult., when, the ice opén-- ing, she sank; but, in the mean time, the master and crew, having got some provisions and water into the boat, and a few spars, with some of the planks torn from the quarter-deck of the vessel, they formed a kind of plat- form or deck to the boat, being laid like a flat roof of a house; which covering, with canvass, served to throw off the water she was continually shipping, as well as to preserve the people from the inclemency of the weather. In this manner did these unfortunates, sixteen in num- ber, by the help of two poles-set up as masts, and sails fixed to them, shape their course for Shetland, which they reached on the 19th, greatly distressed for want of water : when having got refreshment, they the following day set sail in the boat for Liverpool, where they arrived in safety (thongh greatly fatigued) on Saturday lait.’ Taken from the Morning Chronicle, July 8, 1797.

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