Identifier: tragedyofseasors01ellm (find matches)
Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: Boston, W. J. Reynolds & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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DUPPAR BUYS IRELAND AND THE INFANT. 25 sufficient water for their consumption ; and, as Ireland saysthey used a great deal, it must, at least, have yielded fifteenor twenty gallons a day, for the hole was always full. Upona voyage, the) carry their water in bamboo joints and cocoa-nut shells, like the Malays. After remaining here two months, the Indians separated.One party, taking Ireland and the infant DOyley with them,embarked in a canoe, and, after half a days sail, reachedanother islet to the northward, where they remained a dayand a night on the sandy beach ; and, the next morning,proceeded, and reached another island similar to Pullan,low and bushy, where they remained a fortnight. Theythen proceeded to the northward, calling, on their way, atdifferent islands, and remaining as long as they suppliedfood, until they reached one where they remained a month;and then they went on a visit to Darnleys Island, whichthey called Aroob, where, for the first time, Ireland says, hereceived

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