tain of the South. Nothing _white _was to be found at Tsalal,
and nothing otherwise in the subsequent voyage to the region beyond. It
is not impossible that "Tsalal," the appellation of the island of the
chasms, may be found, upon minute philological scrutiny, to betray
either some alliance with the chasms themselves, or some reference to
the Ethiopian characters so mysteriously written in their windings.

_"I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust
within the rock."_

Notes

{*1} Whaling vessels are usually fitted with iron oil-tanks--why the
_Grampus_ was not I have never been able to ascertain.

{*2} The case of the brig _Polly_, of Boston, is one so much in point,
and her fate, in many respects, so remarkably similar to our own, that
I cannot forbear alluding to it here. This vessel, of one hundred and
thirty tons burden, sailed from Boston, with a cargo of lumber and
provisions, for Santa Croix, on the twelfth of December, 1811, under the
command of Captain Casneau. There were eight souls on board besides the
captain--the mate, four seamen, and the cook, together with a Mr. Hunt,
and a negro girl belonging to him. On the fifteenth, having cleared
the shoal of Georges, she sprung a leak in a gale of wind from the
southeast, and was finally capsized; but, the masts going by the board,
she afterward righted. They remained in this situation, without fire,
and with very little provision, for the period of one hundred and
ninety-one days (from December the fifteenth to June the twentieth),
when Captain Casneau and Samuel Badger, the only survivors, were taken
off the wreck by the Fame, of Hull, Captain Featherstone, bound home
from Rio Janeiro. When picked up, they were in latitude 28 degrees N.,
longitude 13 degrees W., having drifted above two thousand miles! On the
ninth of July the Fame fell in with the brig Dromero, Captain Perkins,
who landed the two sufferers in Kennebeck. The narrative from which we
gather these details ends in the following words:

"It is natural to inquire how they could float such a vast distance,
upon the most frequented part of the Atlantic, and not be discovered all
this time. They were passed by more than a dozen sail, one of which came
so nigh them that they could distinctly see the people on deck and on
the rigging looking at them; but, to the inexpressible disappointment of
the starving and freezing men, they stifled the dictates of compassion,
hoisted sai