I've been wrecked, scores of times; but it was with honest men, who could shift for themselves, and if they were drowned, drowned; but didn't screech and catch hold--I couldn't stand that! Well ?" "Well, there was a pretty little creature, an officer's widow, and two children.

I caught her under one arm, and one of the children under the other;--said 'I can't take you all at once; I'll come back for the rest, one by one.'-- Not that I believed it; but anything to stop the screaming; and I did hope to put some of them out of the reach of the sea, if I could get them forward.

I knew the forecastle was dry, for the chief officer was firing there.

You heard him ?" "Yes, five or six times; and then he stopped suddenly." "He had reason .-- We got out.

I could see her nose up in the air forty feet above us, covered with fore-cabin passengers.