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

378 WRECK OP THE TWEED,
wards Sisal. On board the brig there was
everything in the shape of kindness to us ;
and on the following day we reached Sisal,
where, having received for a week the utmost
kindness and hospitality, we embarked on
board the Emilio for Havannah, where we
arrived on the 3d of March.
When the inhabitants of the Havannah
learned how nobly Captain Camp and Mr.
Villaverde, his chief mate, had behaved in
our rescue, a subscription, headed by the Go¬
vernor-General, was commenced for their be¬
nefit, as a mark of how much their kindness
was esteemed by all. In a short time it had
amounted to 4000 dollars. WTien the two
noble officers for whom it was intended heard
about it, they at first refused to accept any
part of it, in the most kind and generous
manner offering it for the benefit of the
widows and families of the poor men lost in
the Tweed. The Consul and all concerned
said this should not be, observing that the
subscription made by the people of Havaimah
was for their two noble-minded countrymen;
and that, surely, “at home,” the countrymen of
the poor sufferers, on hearing of the sad catas-