Read it through once

The history of Mississippi piloting affords six or seven instances of this sort of martyrdom, and half a hundred instances of escapes from a like fate which came within a second or two of being fatally too late; _but there is no instance of a pilot deserting his post to save his life while by remaining and sacrificing it he might secure other lives from destruction._ It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too.