about twenty minutes before six o'clock
Birds were very plenty , there was good fish in the lagoon , but no firewood ; and the water , which could be obtained by digging , brackish . He found good holding-ground off the north end of the larger bank in fifteen fathoms water ; bottom sandy , with coral patches . Here he was detained seven days by a calm , the crew suffering severely from the water , which was gone quite bad ; and it was only on the evening of the 12th , that a little wind sprang up , coming puffy out of N.N.E. Late as it was , Captain Trent immediately weighed anchor and attempted to get out . While the vessel was beating up to the passage , the wind took a sudden lull , and then veered squally into N. and even N.N.W. , driving the brig ashore on the sand at about twenty minutes before six o'clock . John Wallen , a native of Finland , and Charles Holdorsen , a native of Sweden , were drowned alongside , in attempting to lower a boat , neither being able to swim , the squall very dark , and the noise of the breakers drowning everything . At the same time John Brown , another of the crew , had his arm broken by the falls . Captain Trent further informed the OCCIDENTAL reporter , that the brig struck heavily at first bows on , he supposes upon coral ; that she then drove over the obstacle , and now lies in sand , much down by the head and with a list to starboard .