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

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1805 Excerpt: ... A LIST -r A NUMBER 01 ACCIDENTS, SHIPWRECKS And ESCAPES, Where great Hardships and Difficulties hare been encountered, find which many have survived by Perseverance. ACCIDENTS, &c. No. I, LOSS of the Ceh TAUR MAN OF WAR, Sept. 1782. Capt. Inglefield's account, printed tor J. Murray, 1783. II. Lieut. Bligh's narrative, frcuii his quitting the Bo u x T Sloop, until his arrival at the island of Timor. III. Genuine account of the loss of the Sussex Indiaman, off the coast of Madagascar, in 1738.--Vide John Dean's account, printed tor T. Cooper in 1740 REMARKS. Vide Appendix, Case No. III. for the miraculous escape of Capt. Ivglejield and eleven others, in an open boat, 300 leagues from land, almost without Il.oci, aiid arriving in seventeen uaj s at Fayal. Vide Case No. V. of th's affecting narrative, which states-tb4 eighteen men arrived in aa oie: i hoat at Timor, after a passage of forty-one days. Vide Case No. VI. of the Appendix. ACCIDENTS, &C. IV. An account of the escape of Messrs. CARTER, SHAW, and HASKETT, from the Coast of New Guinea, to Timor Island, iu an opc-n boat, in 1793.- Vide Oriental Repertory, vol. i. No. IX. March 17, 1795, and the Oriental Repertory, page 521. V. Capt. KENNEDY'S narrative of the loss of his ship at sea, and of the distresses of himself and crew in an open boat: communicated to his owners.--Vide Annual Register, vol. xii. page 191, for J7G9. VI. Capt. BARTLETTS account of a white man and a negro boy, taken up in a canoe, nineteen days from Grenada to Jamaica without food. VII. The'loss of the P A N Tj 0 R A rRiGATE, onavoyagerownd the world in 1790 to 1792. By Mr. George Hamilton, the surgeon. Printed for W. Phorson of Berwick, and Law of London, 1793. VIII. The case of ROBERT SGOTNEY, seaman, 1S03. IX. The account of So...