The only articles found on board were a few fishing-hooks: the upper part was formed of stone, and the other of bone or mother-of-pearl.
The messengers who had been kept on board were sent to make preparations, and a priest arrived at a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin some little distance off.
There were other urgent reasons for changing the route, provisions were getting low, the salt meat was so tainted, that the rats caught on board were eaten in preference.
But the Tahitans who came onboard were detected in several acts of theft.
The larger part of the poor wretches left on board were saved: when the vessel exploded, they sought shelter in the chains, where they stood till the masts fell overboard, to which they then clung for some hours.
About 800 negroes on board were landed on the island of Corvo.
For the time, the Medusa stuck fast on the sand-bank, and as a large part of those on board were landsmen, consternation and disorder reigned supreme, and reproaches and curses were liberally bestowed on the captain.
The lad took his leave well pleased with the praise bestowed on him by his captain, and very indifferent to the danger to which he as well as all the officers on board were exposed.
All on board were placed on an allowance of water sufficient only to moisten their parched tongues; yet even thus, as the calm continued, it appeared too likely that it would altogether fail.
Even then the eyes of most on board were gazing at the spot where the Rover had gone down, as if they expected to see her emerge again from her watery grave.
They were to be cooked, with the flesh of one of the turtles, before we embarked, as our culinary appliances onboard were limited.
If the people on board were Spaniards, I was not to make a signal to them.
Among other articles which had been put on board were a number of large nuts from the cuja-tree, with which Uncle Paul proposed forming floats or lifebuoys for each of the party.
One of the best seamen on the Centurion was canted overboard and drowned; his manly form was long seen struggling in the water, he being a good swimmer, while those on board were powerless to assist him.
However, the "Mondavia" was far from being out of danger, as those on board were soon to learn.
The fact was, all on board werein much greater danger than they knew of.
Once again, it looked as if all onboard were doomed.
The junks with the prisoners on board were taken in tow by the Gnat, while the other boats took charge of the rest of the junks.
Among the articles on board were a couple of spades, so that having dragged the bodies to a piece of soft ground inside the rocks, they quickly dug a grave, in which the white man and the blacks were placed together.
While this was going forward, the boat was veered astern by a long warp, and now and then the major attempted to shout, but his wife placed her hand over his mouth, so that his demands to be taken on board were unheeded.
This he refused to do, not knowing who summoned him, when he was attacked by a party from the prahu, two of those on board were killed, and he himself severely wounded.
On board were a lot of French Huguenot families who had come to found a settlement on the Mississippi.
But the weather was stormy, and before they had gone far the Delight was wrecked, and nearly all on board were lost.
He thus escaped one danger, however, only to fall into another, and in a storm off the coast of Newfoundland the Reprisal went down, and all onboard were lost.
It was never heard of again, and all on board were lost.
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