The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Tuesday last Capt. Larcher arrived here from the Granades: he informs that in his outward bound passage, he took up a man at sea, who belonged to a vessel commanded by one George Allen, bound from Cape Fear to Barbadoes, having by some accident fell overboard: he had been in the water near an hour and an half, during which time his captain never put the vessel about, or took any other pains for his preservation, than throwing an old barrel after him, depending on captain Larcher's coming up, who, at that time, was at least two leagues astern, by which inhuman neglect, the poor fellow was almost spent when he was taken up, that it was with the utmost difficulty his life was preserved. -- (Masters of vessels cannot take too much pains in saving the lives of their people, when, no doubt, some perish, who might be saved, if proper measures were taken, as this recent instance may serve to demonstrate.)