Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

ST. LAWRENCE.
to Spanish Eiver, about fifty miles distant.
Mr. Prenties quitted the Indian wigwams on
the second of April, and, after a tedious and
harrassing journey, reached Halifax on the
eighth of May, the Indians faithfully perform¬
ing their engagement, and receiving their
stipulated pay. After being detained for a
passage two months at Halifax, Mr. Prenties
at length reached New York, and delivered
his despatches to Sir Henry Clinton. The
rest of the crew and passengers were safely
conducted by the Indians to Spanish River,
and soon afterwards reached Halifax.
LOSS OF THE SUSSEX EAST INDIAMAN, 1738.
The ship Sussex, in the service of the East
India Company, homeward bound from Canton
in China, met with a hard gale about six in
the afternoon of the 9th March, 1738, when to
the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope.
The foresail and topsails being set, the crew
immediately clewed up the latter, and handed
them without reefing; but the fore-topsail
split in clewing up. The wind increased
about eight o’clock, when the foresail being