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themselves beyond conception to preserve their hold. It chanced that the captain had passed the preceding day ashore, but, alarmed at the con­ vulsion of nature, he hastened down to the beach, and there beheld the awful scene. He immediately offered a large recompense to any who would undertake to save his people *, and a merchant, named Staal Hagen, from motives of pure humanity, promised an additional re­ ward for their rescue. For a length of time, money, even, could not bribe any one to the hardy enterprize; at last, however, some boat­ men of Copenhagen bargained for so much a head, and having consented to make the at­ tempt, pushed off. But as the wind blew di­ rectly into the mouth of the port, the boat was tossed to and fro, and the boatmen having set sail too soon, were compelled to seek for safety from the fury of the weather in the first creek they could make. Lars Bagge having just arrived when the boatmen set off, remained a silent spectator, but as soon as he saw the unskilful men give