This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...as would be sufficient to save the army from perishing by famine, and to transport them back to Europe. But these were only hopes; the approach of evening covered the sea with darkness; /and it being impossible for the oflicers aboard the ships which had outlived the storm, to send any inteillgence to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...as would be sufficient to save the army from perishing by famine, and to transport them back to Europe. But these were only hopes; the approach of evening covered the sea with darkness; /and it being impossible for the oflicers aboard the ships which had outlived the storm, to send any inteillgence to their companions who were ashore, they remained during the night in all the anguish of suspense and uncertainty. Next day, a boat dispatched by Doria made shift to reach land, with information, that having weathered out the storm, to which, during fifty years' knowledge of the sea, he had never seen any equal in fierceness and horror, he had found it necessary to bear away with his shattered ships to Cape Metafuz. He advised the emperor, as the face of the sky was still lowering and tempestuous, to march with all speed to _ Whatever comfort this intelligence afforded gzlggfd ' Charles, from being assured that part of his ' fleet had escaped, was balanced by the new cares and perplexity in which it involved him with regard to his army. Metafuz was at least three days' march from his present camp; all the provisions which he had brought ashore at his first landing were now consumed; his soldiers, worn out with fatigue, were hardly able for such a march, even in afriendly country; and being dispirited by a succession of hardships, which that place, where the troops could re-embark with greater ease. victory itself would scarcely have rendered tolerable, ' they were in no condition to undergo new toils. But the situation of the army was such as allowed not one moment for deliberation, nor left it in the least doubtful what to choose. They were ordered instantly to march, the wounded, the sick, and the feeble, being placed in...
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