DEATH ON THE OCEAN.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1086, 14 September 1883, Page 2

DEATH ON THE OCEAN.

A terrible memorial J(says the London Telegraph) of tbe recent dreadful loss of the steamship Navarre was fished up a few days ago by a smack, whose people found in their trawl the bodies of a man and woman tied together, with their eyes bandaged. Probably the mysterious deep never yielded up a secret more shockingly suggestive than those corpses. Whether the man and woman were a married couple, or sweethearts, or brother and sister, we know not; but their bodies fastened together in death tell a moving story of devotion, just as their bandaged eyes convey a most pathetic picture of resolution and anguish. In the wreck of the Cimbria it will be remembered that the survivors spoke of seeing some of the emigrants at the last moment cutting their throats to shorten the final struggle. Most narratives of disaster at sea contain passages of this kind, tolling how those of a shrinking and timid nature when all was well stood forth most noble and perfect types of heroes when danger was supreme ; how the swaggerer, the bully, tbe tyrant proved an abject cur, casting himself down upon the deck in his terror, alternately praying and shrieking in the agony of his fear; how some, unable to await the approach of the last moment, destroyed themselves, while others, with folded arms and contracted brows, stoodmotionless upon the sinking hull, goings to their death like men lost in thoughts