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VOL. IV.--NO. 158. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
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Tuesday, November 7, 1882. Copyright, 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
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PERIL AND PRIVATION.

BY JAMES PAYN.


THE WRECK OF THE "JUNO."

Of all the sufferers from shipwrecks, women are the most to be pitied;
for children do not know the full extent of their danger until death
relieves them, while women usually overestimate it. Their mental agonies
are therefore greater than those endured by men, while their physical
privations are as great, without the same strength to bear them.

Mrs. Bremner, wife of the Captain of the _Juno_, bound from Rangoon to
Madras, had perhaps as terrible an experience of shipwreck as ever fell
to the lot of any of her sex. The ship's crew 