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                     THE WRECK
                         ON
                   THE ANDAMANS:

                       BEING

  A NARRATIVE OF THE VERY REMARKABLE PRESERVATION,
     AND ULTIMATE DELIVERANCE, OF THE SOLDIERS
   AND SEAMEN, WHO FORMED THE SHIPS' COMPANIES OF
     THE RUNNYMEDE AND BRITON TROOP-SHIPS, BOTH
  WRECKED ON THE MORNING OF THE 12TH OF NOVEMBER,
     1844, UPON ONE OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS, IN
                 THE BAY OF BENGAL.


          _TAKEN FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS_

                         BY

                JOSEPH DARVALL, Esq.


                _At the request of_
  CAPT. CHARLES INGRAM, AND CAPT. HENRY JOHN HALL,
             _Owners of the Runnymede._


        "The dangers of the sea,
        All the cares and all the fears,
        When the stormy winds do blow."

                        (_Song._)


      LONDON: PELHAM RICHARDSON, 23, CORNHILL.
                       1845.




PELHAM RICHARDSON, PRINTER, 23, CORNHILL.




PREFACE.


The Author, owing to circumstances, has had access to authentic
documents and facts, relating to one of the most remarkable shipwrecks
which have ever happened, that of the troop-ships Runnymede and
Briton, on the morning of the 12th