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A Miraculous Preservation

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Copenhagen says : "A Norwegian paper is relating a tale of an almost miraculous preservation. ïho captain of the schooner Amazon, of Stavenger, recently arrived at Bergen with a cargo of Balt, reporta that in passing the British Channel he had the opportunity of saving a British lad of 15 under very peculiar circumstances. The Amazon was about 12 geographical miles from the British shore, when the captain thought he observed through his telescope something floating on the water. He altered his course so as to get nearer, and disoovered that it was a sraall boat, in which a lad was lying fast asleep. The shouting from the schooner did not awaken him, but when a email log was thrown over into the boat, he awoke with a sudden start ; an end of a line was thrown to him, and he was just able to fasten it when he swooned and had to be carried on board the vessel. In the boat nothing was found bat a pair of oars and a Bible. The lad, when brought back to life and strength by the tender care shown to him, gave the following account of his fate : He was eitting on shore, reading his Bible, when some of his companions came down to him and teased him with the marnier in which he spent his leisure time. To escape their banter he got into a boat, and kept on reading, when suddenly he digoovered to his great dismay, that his persecutors had cut the line, and left the frail boat to the power of the quick-running ebb. He tried to use the oars, but struggled in vain against wind and water, and as a dense fog set in he soon lost sight of land. After several hours of altérnate struggle and powerless despair he feil asleep, and sleep remained, in fact, his only comfort against hunger, cold, and the deep pangs of his isolation during the three days and two nights which he had spent in his frail boat when he was at last seen and saved. Unhappily, neither the name of the lad nor of the place where his parents live is given, but that will, I suppose, not be difflcult to get at when the faot obtains your wide publicty. The name of the captain of the Amazon is Thompson.

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Old News
Michigan Argus