ABSTRACT
Elias Bascombe, a white man, and a Negro-boy slave, named Mark, the property of Benjamin Webster, Esq. of Grenada, were, on the 16th of August, out fishing in a canoe, when a heavy squall drove them to sea, without either food or water: they were driven to Jamaica, and nineteen days at sea — during all which time they had only two flying fishes, which jumped into their boat, to subsist upon. They made a sail of their clothes, and the rainwater caught in it was their only drink. The canoe drifted on shore, near Old Harbour-the Negro-boy lying upon his face, and Bascombe resting his head upon the boy, both naked, and both motionless. They were carried to a neighbouring Negro-hut, and recovered.
