AN INCIDENT.
A seaman of the Cumberland says:— "I managed to save myself by throwing myself overboard, and giving about three strokes, struck out fbr our launch. I seized a hawser, but was very weak, and had our surgeon hanging on my right leg and a sailor on the left. The ship sinking, was drawing the launch down by the hawser, when Jer. Delany, one of my most. intimate friends, attempted to cut the hawser. I says to him, as feeble as I was, 'Jerry, will ySu .'.drown, mci' fNo,' says he: ' boys^ there is Charlie; haul him in ;' and in I came with the surgeon."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 189, 24 June 1862, Page 5
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106AN INCIDENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 189, 24 June 1862, Page 5
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