led with by the drowning man,
and dragged with him under the surface. Of eighty men who were left of
the troops on board at the time of the bursting out of the flames from
the stern windows, but twenty-five were saved. There were but few
seamen left on board with Philip, the major part having been employed in
making the raft or manning the three boats; those who were on board
remained by his side, regulating their motions by his. After allowing
full time for the soldiers to be picked up, Philip ordered the men to
climb out to the end of the latteen yard which hung on the taffrail, and
either to lower themselves down on the raft if it was under, or to give
notice to the boats to receive them. The raft had been dropped farther
astern by the seamen, that those on board of it might not suffer from
the smoke and heat; and the sailors one after another lowered themselves
down and were received by the boats. Philip desired Captain Barentz to
go before him, but the captain refused. He was too much choked with
smoke to say why, but no doubt but that it would have been something in
praise of the Vrow Katerina. Philip then climbed out; he was followed
by the captain, and they were both received into one of the boats.

The rope, which had hitherto held the raft to the ship, was now cast
off, and it was taken in by the boats; and in a short time the Vrow
Katerina was borne to leeward of them; and Philip and Krantz now made
arrangements for the better disposal of the people. The sailors were
almost all put into boats that they might relieve one another in
pulling; the remainder were placed on the raft, along with the soldiers,
the women, and the children. Notwithstanding that the boats were all as
much loaded as they could well bear, the numbers on the raft were so
great, that it sunk nearly a foot under water, when the swell of the sea
poured upon it; but stanchions and ropes to support those on board had
been fixed and the men remained at the sides, while the women and
children were crowded together in the middle.

As soon as these arrangements were made, the boats took the raft in tow,
and just as the dawn of day appeared, pulled in the direction of the
land.

The Vrow Katerina was, by this time, one volume of flame: she had
drifted about half a mile to leeward, and Captain Barentz, who was
watching as he sat in the boat with Philip, exclaimed--"Well, there goes
a lovely ship, a ship that could do everything but speak--