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HALL RECORDS/W.S.Hall/Ethel/1881
junior, which we interred. The grave being marked with a cross with his name and the date of his death cut on it. The cutter Sarah was uninjured & the Ethel (which had her bows torn out by the shackle jamming in the hawser-pipe) we repaired, ready to launch as soon as we shall have sufficient tide & appliances - owing to the rapidity with which the tide rose, its height, & the distance it went inland - every-one that was about the vicinity at the time has come to the conclusion that there was a tidal wave
(signed) W.S.Hall
Witness: Edw.A.Lemon P.C. at Cossack 24th January, 1881
H.M Wilson
