A brief and remarkable narrative of the life and extreme sufferings of Barnabas Downs, Jun. : $b Who was among the number of those who escaped death on board the privateer brig Arnold, James Magee, commander, which was cast away near Plymouth-Harbour, in a most terrible snow-storm, December 26, 1778, when more than sixty persons were frozen to death. Containing also a particular account of said shipwreckDowns, Barnabas
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A brief and remarkable narrative of the life and extreme sufferings of Barnabas Downs, Jun. : $b Who was among the number of those who escaped death on board the privateer brig Arnold, James Magee, commander, which was cast away near Plymouth-Harbour, in a most terrible snow-storm, December 26, 1778, when more than sixty persons were frozen to death. Containing also a particular account of said shipwreck
Downs, Barnabas
Downs, Barnabas, 1757-1817; James Arnold (Ship); Shipwrecks
7. Within the book of his accounts,
Each of my members written are,
Without commiſſion from his Hand,
There ſhall not fall a limb or hair.
8. With joyful heart I’ll tread his Courts,
And pay my vows among his Saints,
To Him my life, my all devote,
Who bow’d his Ear to my complaints.
Transcriber’s Note
=This= denotes the semantic use of small caps in the original text.
Archaic and inconsistent spelling retained, along with inconsistent
hyphenation (quarter-deck/quarter deck).
To revert to modern letterforms, globally replace "ſ" with "s".
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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