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September 2017 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827


white palisade, at a respectable distance from their employers, with sunken cheeks and melancholy eyes and gazing towards the offi ng, where the vessels are lying at anchor that are bound for their own native country. Oh, what fruitless wishes might not those longing looks call up in their homes sick bosoms! When I fi rst observed those pale, thoughtless groups, and could enter a little into their feelings, I remembered the “Bridge of Sighs” in Venice, and felt that there the appellation might have been conferred with equal truth. There, also, the seafaring peo- ple are frequently collected in the evening: American and coasting skippers, with their blue nankeen jackets and slouched hats, every feature in their dark intelligent faces compressed for a discussion of their favorite topic of business, or the enjoyment of their large strong fl avored segars; and British ship masters, with their tales of Old England that gives such a charm to their society, and their loud and careless merriment, that is so seldom echoed by their homesick listeners. The last time that I stood on that “Bridge


of Sighs,” is associated with the most painful remembrances. It was, I recollect, upon, a very close and sultry night, during one of the latter months of the wet season – not a breath of air was stirring, and the mosquitoes and sand fl ies had driven all the stragglers to the bridge. I had never seen it more crowded. All the grades I have remarked where there – storekeepers, Americans, and ship captains, with a numerous addition of Creoles and black people, who had come down the river from “Free Town,” and were watching the market craft that was fastened to the landing place. It was usual at this time for the market house to be cleaned out, after sundown, and the off al of the meat thrown into the river. That circumstance frequently attracted the alligator, in its quest of prey, to the neigh- borhood, and several had been seen during the period of my residence there, crawling among the huge wooden supporters of that side of the market house which projected over the bank. During this evening, the strong musky effl uvia, common to those creatures, was so particular, as almost to be sickening in its eff ect – and an unusual number of segars were shooting their small red lights through the dusk, like fi refl ies, the broad dark water beneath the bridge, refl ect- ing them back, with their white wreathes of smoke from its glassy surface. A few acquaintances and myself, all fresh from the house of a certain French publican, named Joseph, were sitting on the edge of a doree,


or canoe, hauled upon the landing, and sing- ing an old Scotch ditty, when we observed a young Spaniard, whom we had remarked in the tavern, and knew to be the sailing master of a small coasting shalloupe, com- ing, evidently much intoxicated, towards the bridge. He had been dissatisfi ed, during the day, with the behavior of his consignee, and his sense of insult being aggravated by the fumes of rum, he now sought to retaliate the abuse which he had received. One or two of his countrymen, who followed him, vainly endeavored to dissuade him from his resolution; and the sentinels on the brig, with the same considerate feeling, drew up to oppose his passage. He was not, however, to be restrained; and being prevented from crossing the bridge, by the interference of the soldiers, he turned away, with a short indignant laugh, and proceeded with a quick but unsteady step, down the bank. At a little distance, having shaken off his companions, he abruptly turned round a corner of the mar- ket house, and plunged into the river. A cry of horror rose from the spectators – and though our fears for his safety were, for a moment, removed by his appearance above water, and his apparent strength in swimming, yet the evidence we had already received, of the neighborhood of the alligator, tended to confi rm the certainty of his destruction, and many a warning voice shouted to him to return. It was in vain – the devoted wretch answered with the same scornful laugh, and tossed his arms repeatedly over his head as if contemning the caution. The strong agi- tated rippling that marked the pursuit of the alligator, was immediately perceptible upon the surface of the water, but the monster at fi rst mistook his aim – for the Spaniard, now miserably alive to the sense of his danger, sprung-completely out of the water, with a shrill, piercing cry, that still rings in my ears and struggled violently, but vainly to regain the bank. The alligator passed on, then turned with a slow and deliberate motion for which it is remarkable, and raising almost to the surface, showed its enormous jaw lifted to close upon its victim. All hopes are at an end. The poor Spaniards disappeared in a moment, and his last cries of horror and despair gurgled through the water that glided over him.


to 11th


Sea Fight. – New South Wales papers February give the particulars of a


spirited action between the British whale ship SISTERS, Capt. Duke, and the British brig WELLINGTON. The latter had been


seized by sixty six convicts, banished from Sydney to Norfolk Island, who immediately commenced piracy, and ran down upon New Zealand, where the SISTERS fell in with her, and engaged her for six hours, during which four of the pirates were killed, and the WELLINGTON much damaged in her sails and hull. Capt. Duke, whose crew consisted of thirty men, then hailed and informed the pirates that if they surrendered, their lives, would be saved; otherwise, assisted by 300 natives from the shore, he would put every soul of them to death. This threat had its eff ect. A great number escaped previous to the surrender, but he brought thirty fi ve prisoners into Sydney. – London paper.


MARINE LIST Port of Belfast Arrived


August 14th Salem. August 15th


man, Boston. August 19th


schooner ANN, Foster, schooner LINITY, Board- schooner RAMBLER,


Baker, Dennis; sloops JULIA ANN, Lunt, Eastport, and EAGLE, ---, Gloucester. August 20th


ET, Shute, Boston August 20th


Gray, Somerset. August 20th


Eastport. August 20th Crowell, Cape Cod.


LANT, Mer- chant, of this port, was one down on Sat- urday morning last, I. Sholes, ESE 8 leagues, by schooner JUDITH, Park- er, from Salem for Northport; the bends and two strakes of her planks were cut down, and in 15 min- utes, she had 3½ feet of wa- ter in her hold. By keeping her damaged side to windward,


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The U. S. ship NORTH CAROLINA,


Com. Rogers, has arrived at Norfolk, from the Mediterranean, via Port-au-Prince, Ha- vana, Key West, &c. Understood that it was very sickly at Havana. Saw at Key West the Mexican frigate LIBETAD, and a brig of war of Commodore Porter’s squadron. The NORTH CAROLINA has been absent from the United States twenty-eight months, during which time the offi cers and crew have generally enjoyed good health. – Bos. Gaz.


29 August The Ellsworth Courier contains a list of


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The Newburyport Herald mentions that


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