Scenes and Incidents at Sea, a New Selection

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Captain James' Adventubes, Etc. 83 rendered an orphan, would not consent to leave me. You are the only friend I have in the world, said she to me, misfortunes have made you a brother; do not abandon me. The passage was short and favourable, and we came in sight of the beautiful port of Havre on the llth of January. My first care on arriving was to try and provide for my little sister; this poor girl who would call me her brother. A generous and wealthy shipowner of Havre, acting with the kindest promptitude on the recommendation which a worthy priest on board had given me to him, undertook the responsibility of providing a home for her. My mind being set at rest as to the destiny of this poor child, I left Havre for Paris, where of the little fortune I had collected in Russia from my paintings and my sketches, there remained only of all my riches the sum of fifteen centimes, but I have found what makes up to me for all, in the happy meeting which has just taken place. CAPTAIN JAMES' ADVENTURES IN THE NORTH SEAS. In the year 1630, several wealthy merchants of Bristol united in fitting out a vessel for the purpose of accurately examining the whole northern coast of America. The command of this vessel, which was small, only of seventy tons burthen, but one of the strongest ships of her size that had ever been built, was given to Captain James. She was provisioned for eighteen mouths, and manned with only twenty-two seamen, but these were all excellent sailors. His stores having been all shipped, and the men on board, Captain James left Bristol in the month of April, 1631. After passing the southern coast of Ireland, he sailed in a wst-uorth-westeiiy direction, and on the fourth of June discovered the coast of Greenland.Two days subsequently to this, his vesse...