There were those among them who had begun to perceive that they were engaged in a race and that their competitor in that race was starvation. John Brown and Hynes and Fitzgerald and Fruil and Simpson and Warmington were among them and they made bundles of their clothes and possessions. They went a little upriver and entered the water and swam with one hand holding their essentials above their heads.
The diary of a survivor of the Grosvenor shipwreck. A walk from Lambasi to Kenton in 1782.
