162 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



Cook was, who likewise left him. A few days 

 after I left the Brig, Captain Orne called 

 on me to go with him again, promising to 

 put me forward if I would go. I certainly 

 wanted a friend, but my father, to whom 

 I related the transactions of the voyage, set 

 his face against it and I declined. 



After a while I embarked on board the 

 Schooner Rachel 1 of Beverly, Thomas 

 Woodbury master, as ordinary seaman and 

 bound for the Island of Tobago. We sailed 

 from Beverly about September and had a 

 deck load of sheep on board, say about 

 seventy. Off Cape Cod we had a hard gale. 

 The second night out, we drowned about 

 fifty of the sheep. 2 A more dismal night I 

 had never seen than that, as the sheep in the 



1 Schooner " Rachel," 71 tons, built in 1789. 



2 Horses, mules, horned cattle and sheep were ex- 

 ported in large numbers to the West Indies, usually as a 

 deck cargo. In 1785 New London sent over eight thou- 

 sand horses to the West Indies and Norwich, on her 

 " horse Jockeys, " as they were called, in 1789 exported 

 1800 head of live stock. CAULKINS, History of Nor- 

 wich, p. 478. 



