Life and Missionary Travels of the Rev. J. Furniss Ogle, M.A

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Excerpt from Life and Missionary Travels of the Rev. J. Furniss Ogle, M.A: From His Letters, Selected by His Sisters The winter of 1865-6 was an unusually tempestuous one. Great storms swept the seas: oft-recurring wrecks strewed the shore, and frequent tales of calamity and disaster filled the columns of the daily papers. The first three and the last three months of 1865 were fatally marked in this respect. The registered number of shipwrecks during that period, as given in "The Times, " was 766, involving the loss of not fewer than 1656 lives. On one of the first days of December in that year, the French mail-steamer Borysthene, left the port of Marseilles for Oran. The voyage proved a stormy one, but now the steamer was off the coast of Algeria. It was Friday the 15th December, the night was dark, the wind and sea were high, the captain looked anxiously for the light-house, which ought to have been visible, for, according to his reckoning, he was in the neighbourhood of Mersa-el-Keber. He sent a sailor aloft to search the darkness for the friendly beacon, but no light could he see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.