Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; Between 1793 And 1849
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On the breaking up of the ship both got upon the mast. Attimes they were washed off, but by each other's assistance regainedit. The lieutenant at last, became exhausted by continual exertions, and benumbed, with cold. The wolf was equally fatigued, and both heldoccasionally by the other to retain his situation. When within a shortdistance of the land, Lieutenant Salsford, affected by the attachmentof the animal, and totally unable any longer to support himself, turned towards him from the mast,... the beast clapped his fore pawsround his neck, while the lieutenant clasped him in his arms, and theysank together. [13] Such was the fate of the Minotaur, her captain, and four hundred ofher crew. There is not the slightest doubt but that, had the Dutchsent assistance, the greater part of the ship's company would havebeen saved; and it would appear by the following extract from aletter, written on the subject by Lieutenant Snell, that the riskattending such a humane attempt, on the part of the Dutch, would nothave been great.
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