The Wreck of the "Royal Charter‪"‬

The book was Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter.


NOTE INTRODUCTORY.


This little book is prepared under the conditions of saving the Mail which leaves England on the 12th, and of being a complete narrative of the Wreck. The one condition is adverse to the other; but I have endeavoured to meet them both.


F.


London, November the Eighth, 1859.


“Forth from the polar caverns of the snows,

Dripping with winter, leapt a northern storm,

And shook himself, and she lay buried white....

Oh! and we were homeward bound!”

Balder.