ed on board the Victory
with us; and I once more found a good dry plank between me and the salt
water."

"Was the captain and admiral saved?"

"Captain Waghorn was: he could not swim; but one of the seamen held him
up. The admiral was drowned in his cabin. Captain Waghorn tried to
acquaint him that the ship was sinking; but the heeling over of the ship
had so jammed the doors of the cabin that they could not be opened."

"What became of the lieutenant of the watch and the carpenter?"

"The lieutenant of the watch was drowned--and so indeed was the
carpenter: his body was taken up, I believe, by the same boat which
picked up Lieutenant Durham. [Afterwards Admiral Sir Philip Durham.]
When I went on board of the Victory, I saw the carpenter's body before
the galley fire--some women were attempting to recover him, but he was
quite dead. There was a strong westerly breeze, although the day was
fine; and the wind made the water so rough that there was great danger
of the boats getting entangled in the rigging and spars, when they came
to take the men off, or more would have been saved."

"How many do you think were lost altogether?" inquired Anderson.

"We had our whole complement on board, eight hundred and sixty-five men;
and there were more than three hundred women on board, besides a great
many Jews with slops and watches; as there always are, you know, when a
ship is paid, and the men have any money to be swindled out of. I don't
exactly know how many men were saved, but there was only one woman,
which was the one I dragged out of the port. There was a great fat old
bumboat woman, whom the sailors used to call the `Royal George,'--she
was picked up floating, for she was too fat to sink; but she had been
floating the wrong way uppermost, and she was dead. There was a poor
little child saved rather strangely. He was picked up by a gentleman
who was in a wherry, holding on to the wool of a sheep which had escaped
and was swimming. His father and mother were drowned, and the boy did
not know their names; all that he knew was that his own name was Jack;
so they christened him John _Lamb_, and the gentleman took care of him."

"Have you no idea how many men were saved, Turner?"

"I only know this,--that the Admiralty ordered five pounds a man to be
given to the seamen who were saved, as a recompense for the loss of
their clothes, and I heard that only seventy-five claimed it; but how
many marines were saved, o