"Situated as we were, who could think that men should be so careless of the danger they were in? for, if the wind had but raised the swell as it was when the vessel struck, we must have bid a final farewel to all hopes of deliverance; and though, I warned the people who were drinking, and entreated them to embrace the moment of deliverance, nevertheless they persisted, as if not possessed of the least spark of reason."
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
11 entries in ESTC (1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794).<br>
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See <u>The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed and sold for the author, by T. Wilkins, 1789). &lt<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html">Link to Documenting the American South Edition</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837188.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837188.0001.002">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;