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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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about in the bed of the sea, at the depth of- about twenty feet,lay anchors, cannon, and sheets of lead and copper sheathing,completely corroded and disfigured by rust. They succeeded inrecovering many of them from the water,—an anchor of four-teen hundred pounds, a small cannon coated with coral, andtwo brass swivels, in a good state of preservation. Thus pos-sessed of evidence which after the lapse of forty years must beconsidered as conclusive, dUrville erected near the anchoragea cenotaph to the memory of the hapless navigator. It wasplaced in a smdl grove, and consecrated by a salute of twenty-one guns and three volleys of musketry. 468 MAN UPON THE SEA. The islanders were now profuse in their explanations of thecircumstances attending the calamity. As far as dUrville
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CONSECRATION OF THE CENOTAPH. could interpret their language and their pantomime, the shipsstruck upon the reef during a gale in the night. One speedilysank, only thirty of her crew escaping; the other remained fora time entire, but afterwards went to pieces, her whole crewhaving been saved. From her timbers they constructed aschooner, in which labor they occupied seven moons or months,and then sailed away and never returned. What befell themafter their second embarkation, what was the fate of their daringlittle vessel,—if indeed any such was ever built,—no one hassurvived to tell. It is safe to believe that both vessels werelost upon the island of Vanikoro, now one of the archipelagoof the New Hebrides. It is supposed that Lapdrouse was thefirst European navigator that visited it, Dillon the second, anddUrville the third. x

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