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Here he was detained seven days by a calm,
the crew suffering severely from the water, which was
gone quite bad; and it was only on the evening of the
12th that a little wind sprang up, coming puffy out of
N.N.E. Late as it was, Captain Trent immediately
weighed anchor and attempted to get out. While the
vessel was beating up to the passage, the wind took a
sudden lull, and then veered squally into N., and even
N.N.W., driving the brig ashore on the sand at about
twenty minutes before six o'clock. John Wallen, a
native of Finland, and Charles Holdorsen, a native of
Sweden, were drowned alongside, in attempting to lower
a boat, neither being able to swim, the squall very
dark, and the noise of the breakers drowning
everything. At the same time John Brown, another of
the crew, had his arm broken by the falls. Captain
Trent further informed the OCCIDENTAL reporter that
the brig struck heavily at first bows on, he supposes
upon coral; that she then drove over the obstacle, and
now lies in sand, much down by the head, and with a
list to starboard.


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