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which are made up of logs and sawed lumber attached together in order to be floated to a shipping port or to market, rafts are usually a device made and used in an exigency; such are those made in the emergency of shipwreck, among the most notable instances of which is the loss of the French frigate Medusa. This melancholy event occurred in the year 1816. The Medusa, having on board, in addition to her crew, a detachment of soldiers designed to garrison the fort at St. Louis River, Senegal, Africa, which had been given up by the English under the treaty of the preceding year, struck unexpectedly on the Arguin bank a dangerous shoal, lying some twelve or fifteen leagues from the African coast, in latitude 20° north; a large raft was hastily constructed by lashing together such spars and other materials as were at hand, and on this the majority of the persons on board were embarked, the boats of the ship sufficing for only a comparatively small number. When all were on the raft it