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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Captain Gibbs went to the wreck ofthe ill-fated Ann Alexander, for the purpose of trying to procuresomething from her, but as the sea was rough, and the atteuiptconsidered dangerous, he abandoned the project. The Nantucketthen sot sail for )*^jita, where she arrived on the 15th ofSeptember, and where shv hiuded Captain Deblois and his men.Captain Deblois was kindly and hospitably received, and enter-tained at Paita by Cisptain Eathurst, an Engli.sh gentleman re-siding there, and subsequently took passage on board the schoonerProvidence, Captain Starbuck, for this port, arriving here onSunday last, the 12th instant. At Paita, Captain Deblois entered his protest at the U. S.Consulate, wliich was authenticated by the following officers andserinuu, on Loan) at the time of the disaster; the two officers andthe rest of the crew having shipped on board otlier vessels : Jo-soph K. Green, first mate ; James Smith, third do.; Jolm Mor-gan, carpenter; Jaiuoo lliloy, cooper; James McRoberts, John
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WONDERFUL EXPLOIT OF BENJAMIN CLOUGn. 79 Smith, William Smith, Henry Rcid, and Charles F. Booth, seamen. The whaling shi p Sharon of Fairhaven, having been some timecruising for whales in the vicinity of the Caroline Islands, put inat Ascension, the 15th of October, 1842, for wood, water andrecruits. The requisite supplies being obtained, preparationswere made to proceed upon the voyage, when eleven of the crewdeserted, and being secreted and protected on shore, all efforts toIotake them were fruitless. The ship sailed again on the 27thOctober, with a crew of seventeen men, all told, four of whomwere natives of Kings Mill Groupe, and two of other islands inthe South Sea. The intention was to touch at Bay of Islands orPort Jackson, to make up the complement of men. On Sunday, Nov. 6th, lat. 2° 20 N., Ion. 162° E., whaleswere i-aised, and both boats lowered in chase, leaving Captain.^Norris, a Portuguese boy, named Manuel Jose des Reis, whoacted as steward, and three of the Kings Mill

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