A Vessel Saved.
A vessel was six months making the passage from Liverpool to Bermuda
Island. Fogs enveloped it; winds sent it hither and thither; captain and
mate lost their reckoning, lost their senses; and when, added to the
rest, the vessel sprung a leak, gave up in despair. Crew and passengers
were finally reduced to a few drops of water and one potato a day, and
they merely waited death from starvation or drowning. All but one! One
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man; a minister, whose faith and belief in their final escape burned but
despair. A few days before they made the land, the leakage suddenly
it was proposed to turn it bottom upward and see what stopped the leak.
that that end of the vessel was entirely covered with barnacles!