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THE LOSS OF THE atARGAIKT, oF" ABERDEEN, AND TaE-25ETUS,f)F LKlTH. MIRACUrOtS ESCAPE Of THE ONBT SURVIVOR. THIRTY- ONE; IJLVES BOST. The following is an account of the wreck of the barques Margaret, of Abe deen, and Zetus, of Leith, which were wrecked on Cariboo rocks, early on Sunday morning, May 16, by James Dooald. chief mate of thi Margaret, and only "urvlvorof both crews: —On Saturday night we were running with a strong wind from E N.E.. under the topsails and foresail, at the rate of seven miles an hour. We had a strong 8ea at the time, but did no' fee) it much us we were runlnng before it. Atlam.on Su iay the barque Zetus cams within hailing distaner, undlr the same sail and steering; he same course. She gradually went ahead of us, as she sailed (after; but whet she got three or fonr times her own length ahead she v< as on the rocks—it being at the time very thick and rami" g. The consequence was, that next minute we were m the rocks also, with the sea making a clean breaci over us. As we were the last to break up, J witness <1 the last of the Zetus. She was scarcely half an hru- m the rocks when her main and mizzen masts went by he board, and her foremast a id bowsprit went soon after, the sea by this time breaking mountains high. She went to pieces immediately after, when all on hoard must have perished. About ten minutes after onr main and mizen masts went by the board; but before they went when we tried to get the jollybo it out, a sea broke on board, which knocked the stern an 1 alter part of the cabin in, and smashed the boat to pieces. We next tried to launch the long boat—the sea, like a mountain, breaking on board with great violence—when one very heavy sea broke on board, smashed the boat to pieces, and washed us all down to the main deck. When we all got forward the second mate's leg and ribs on the right side were broken, and six or seven more of the crew had limbs broken, and were otherwise entirely disabled. The weather was very cold. We then tried to get the pinnace over the side, but the sea was determined to take her also, a sea smashing her up against the foremast,, ft was then our main and mizen masta went. The after part of the ship was by this time broke, and the foremast working from side to side. We then constructed a raft of the deck planks as they were washed forward. Then the foremast went. We were then fifteen souls clinging to the bowsprit. Then, with a short prayer, commending our souls to the mercy of God, the bowsprit went, and all hands with it. After! got to the surface one of the men caught me by the legs and hAuled me under, by which means he raised hiiuself, and let me go. When 1 got up I caught a piece of bulwark plank, about three or four inches lonR; but a short time after I got hold of a piece of deck beam, which floated me, and enabled me to look round, when, to my sorrow, I sawall the peopie lying over their little pieces of wood, with their heads in the water, apparently resigned to their fate. Those who had not their limbs broken were fairy benumbed with coid, being mostly in their underclothing. There was no struggling for life except by the captain himself. He had a piecOtof deck beam the same as I had, but he did not cling to it long. Whenlbadachancetoiooi; for him, about 10 minutes after, I could not see him. ] was washed several times from my piece, but always co'. hold again. I received some severe strokes about the the shoulders. At last a piece of wood struck n-e on the head, which laid the foreportopen, and the blood flowed profusely, but I still had my senses. At last I got on to the rocks, when through some accident my piece of wood turned round and put me up before it, and fell very heavip three or four times on my breast, and fairly disabled me, but I managed to crawl clear of it, and tried to get on my feet, but I had not strength to stand, and fell again, the blood running down my face. I tried to crawl on my hands and knees, but my senses were ieavinn mOl when two men came running down (nam?d M, Magloire Boueher and Mr Joseph Levesque) and carried me in their arms to their cabin, where they treated me very kindly, and put me to bed, where I slept for three hours, and waked very greatly refreshed. 1 inquired if a iy more people had come on shore, but they told me no. I asked if there were any people from the other ship, but they said no. They Mid that there was none come ashore but me. I put on some clothes (agains the people's will), and went down among the rocks to see if I could see any of my shipmates, but there was not a sign of any of them. The wreck was lying dry among the rocks, in pieces. Thus, in about two and haif hoor" from the time that both ships siruck, about 31 men perished, and the ehips were dry among the rocks, m pieces. At half-past one we struck, and about a quarter- past four I was carried into the kind Canadians' cabin, where every attention was paid to me by them and their kind wives. Both ships were coal laden. The missing of the Margaret's crew are;—Captain Allen, Aberdeen; William Gorman, stcond mate, do; William B. Don, do, George Gihson, A. B., do; Richard Corhert, A.B-, do; John M'Wiliiam, O.S.. do; J. P. Jnbnson, steward, Goth nhurg, but marr ed in Sunder- land; Thomas Mason, A.B, Sunderland; James Tucker, Cornwall; Charles Brown, A.B, Gothenburg; William Hanson, A B, H-.rt'epool; James Brindle, A.B, unknown William Thomson, OS, New York; William Pattison, O.S., Jamaica. Total missing--14.

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