Canibalism

The pa, e:s coniain an account of the wreek of the Schooner Carolin? on liei passage iïom Favam.nh !o Balli ; and the loss of part óf the crew, and the sufferiogs of tl. e rern.iiiider. We give an extract : - "On the löth instant, baving been fifteen days without food, and eight days without wiler, the sufTerers were nearly e.xhnusted, and deterrnineJ, as a last resort, to adopt the drendl'ul alternative of dawing lois 'o see which should die to Teed the remninJer.' Tlie !ot was finaüy clrawn, and feil on an Irishman, who cnll ed tiis name Ghnrlns Hrown. Brown, who was the stoutést man on bo.ird the ve;sel, was of a violent disposition, and w.ns, witlial. the only man who had a weaion. (Ie immediately drew liis sheath knife, and swore that f any one laid hands on him lie would kilt two of iliem. He was deaf to all appeals to his reason as to the faiiiiess of the lot, and asserled tl.ai the youngest on board, n Welch boy nameil Ilewey Rose, should forfeit his life. 'Capt. Srnith immediately lurned his back to liis companions, nnd requested them to take bis life, f they thought proper. Th, however, they refused to do. He t!ipn era led into theenbin, henrt-sick as wellassick in body, and threw himself into the berih. Whilst lying there reflecting upon tliR injuslice of wiiich tlie Irisliman was guilty n dooming to deaih a person who had esoaped the lo, he saw ihe handlc ofari adze partially under waler. He called the Welch boy from the derk, being to we.ik to move himself, and directed him to piek it up, whlch the boy did. Feeling his stretigth somewhat revived, Capt. Smith took the weapon and iolloHed the boy on deck. ''When they renched ihe deck, ihe Irishmar;, Brown, approuched ihe boy for ihe purpose of taking his üfe, but had hardly louched the boy when he feil dend upon the deck by a blow (Yom the adze in tlie hands of Capt. Smiih, who thus frustrated ihe net of injustice which the Irishman was about to commit. The survivn s proeredcd to bled the body, and with the blood quenched their thirst. - They ihen cut the body into slrips, fur the purpose ofdrying. "The survivors subsisted on the blood for tliree days, when it bccnme spoiled, and Ihey were again reduced to tte last extremity of distress, when fortunaiely they were discovered and taken offl completely exhausied, on the 13th, by tlie brig Tampico, bound from New Haven to the West Indies. Two of the survivors were subiequenily transferred to the schooner Splendid, whioh arrived at Delaware Breakwaler, Nov. 15."