What an awful way to go. Those poor sailors. Pat.xxx :o)) A Maid of Kent The Times, Tuesday, Feb 06, 1866; pg. 12; Issue 25414; col B MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION AT SEA. ----------------------- TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, - During a seven weeks' detention in this harbour, waiting for a fair wind for Batavia, many painful incidents of peril, loss of life, and rescue from the late violent gales have reached me, but the following account of the hairbreadth escape of an English captain, for the truth of which I can vouch, may deserve a corner in your journal. Last evening I was told that the Ida Elizabeth, a Dutch vessel, Captain DOREN, from Java, just come into this port, had on board an English captain, whom she had picked up in the last stage of exhaustion at sea.