Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 201
s theybehold first one, and then another, washed away, and, for a few seconds, struggling in the white foam of the sea against the destruction that ensues. Even should the weather be fine when a wreck takes place—it may be after a storm—or, striking on the rocks that the leak may still over-whelm… … 164 THE PRESERVATIONOF LIFE. Fiff. 4. Now, much of this might be prevented, and that too by the simplest means. TheChinese are far before us in this matter. When their large junks go to sea, eachpassenger takes his own merchandise under his immediate care; and it is rarely, if everknown, that they…
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