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Title: Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from
the earliest part of the century to the present time, with
accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending
fatalities

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 6, 2008 [EBook #25982]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THRILLING NARRATIVES

OF

MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY,

A WEIRD SERIES OF

Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster,

FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME,

WITH ACCOUNTS OF

Providential Escapes

AND

HEART-RENDING FATALITIES.

NEW YORK:
HURST & CO., PUBLISHERS,
122 NASSAU ST.

[Illustration]

PREFACE.

Shipwreck may be ranked among the greatest evils which man can
experience. It is never void of danger, frequently of fatal issue, and
invariably productive of regret. It is one against which there is the
least resource, where patience, fortitude and ingenuity are in most
cases, unavailing, except to protract a struggle with destiny, which,
at length, proves irresistible.

But amidst the myriads unceasingly swallowed up by the deep, it is not
by the numbers that we are to judge of the miseries endured. Hundreds
may at once meet an instantaneous fate, hardly conscious of its
approach, while a few individuals may linger out existence, daily in
hope of succor, and at length be compelled to the horrible alternative
of preying on