An Awful Wreck
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Steamships, Cultural Geography |
Describes the interpretation by some 'savages' of a mysterious iron structure cast on an African shore. Notes that they thought it might be the 'ribs of some monster Leviathan' but that it turned out to be 'the mangled remains of a lady's Crinoline'. | |
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