This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... like the shirt, showing the bones, and the ribs. I had brought with me from Casa Magni one of Williams' shoes, which matched in size exactly the one which the corpse still had on. This shoe, and the black scarf, assured me that the body was that of Shelley's companion. Williams was the only one of the three ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... like the shirt, showing the bones, and the ribs. I had brought with me from Casa Magni one of Williams' shoes, which matched in size exactly the one which the corpse still had on. This shoe, and the black scarf, assured me that the body was that of Shelley's companion. Williams was the only one of the three who could swim and was probably the last to perish. It is also probable that as he was better dressed than the others and had upon him a watch and some money, that his body may have been robbed before it was discovered ." It is exceedingly probable that Shelley had perished without an attempt to save himself, in order not to imperil the life of one who might strive to save him. As to the sailorboy, Charles Vivian, we know from a letter of Captain Domenico Simoncini, Sanitary officer at Viareggio, published by Trelawney, that on that same day, July 18th and not "three weeks after the ship-wreck," as he writes, there was thrown up on the shore at Massa a corpse, without the head, which had been eaten by fishes. It had on a cotton jacket and a pair of blue and white striped trowsers, and was barefooted. This body was burnt on the spot where it was found, and the ashes were buried in the sand. These were, no doubt, the mortal remains of the third victim of the shipwreck of the Ariel. The two bodies having been recognized, were temporarily buried where they had been found; it was now necessary to discover some means of transferring them to some place of honorable sepulture. Trelawney applied to Mr. Dawkins, then English Resident at Florence, and Charge" d'Affaires near the Duke of Lucca. Dawkins wrote from the Baths of Lucca (where he was then staying) to Trelawney the letter published by the latter, advising him to ask only...
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