e as
to save the woman, who invoked, with all her might, the assistance of
our Lady of Land. Her husband was rescued at the same time by the head
workman, Lavilette. We laid these unfortunates upon the dead bodies,
supporting their backs with a barrel. In a short while they recovered
their senses. The first thing the woman did was to acquaint herself with
the name of the person who saved her, and to express to him her
liveliest gratitude. Finding, doubtless, that her words but ill
expressed her feelings, she recollected she had in her pocket a little
snuff, and instantly offered it to him,--it was all she possessed.
Touched with the gift, but unable to use it, M. Correard gave it to a
poor sailor, which served him for three or four days. But it is
impossible for us to describe a still more affecting scene,--the joy
this unfortunate couple testified, when they had sufficiently recovered
their senses, at finding they were both saved.

The rebels being repulsed, as it has been stated above, left us a little
repose. The moon lighted with her melancholy rays this disastrous raft,
this narrow space, on which were found united so many torturing
anxieties, so many cruel misfortunes, a madness so insensate, a courage
so heroic, and the most generous--the most amiable sentiments of nature
and humanity.

The man and wife, who had been but a little before stabbed with swords
and bayonets, and thrown both together into a stormy sea, could scarcely
credit their senses when they found themselves in one another's arms.
The woman was a native of the Upper Alps, which place she had left
twenty-four years before, and during which time she had followed the
French armies in the campaigns in Italy, and other places, as a sutler.
"Therefore preserve my life," said she to M. Correard, "you see I am an
useful woman. Ah! if you knew how often I have ventured upon the field
of battle, and braved death to carry assistance to our gallant men.
Whether they had money or not, I always let them have my goods.
Sometimes a battle would deprive me of my poor debtors, but after the
victory, others would pay me double or triple for what they had consumed
before the engagement. Thus I came in for a share of their victories."
Unfortunate woman! she little knew what a horrible fate awaited her
among us! They felt, they expressed so vividly that happiness which they
alas so shortly enjoyed, that it would have drawn tears from the most
obdurate heart. But in t