252 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



But they kept making signals. The next 

 day I passed to windward of the Island and 

 standing over the Oronoko we fetched 

 Wyman River and ran down for Cape Bar. 

 We ran up as far as the junction of the 

 Maturin and Grand River and the Ma- 

 careo. In ten days I found my schooner 

 with my goods. I proceeded to town and 

 discharged my schooner and Brig, and con- 

 signed myself to Don Juan Hymont, a 

 German merchant, and commenced sell- 

 ing my cargo and purchasing produce. 

 We lay about four months and laded the 

 Brig and I found myself short of money 

 to pay my duties ; consequently, I went to 

 Trinidad and purchased about $7000 worth 

 of goods and chartered a sloop to take me 

 back to Angostura. On my passage up the 

 Macareo one night, while at anchor and 

 fast to the bank, I had lain myself on the 

 mainsail of the vessel to avoid mosquitoes. 

 At twelve o'clock at night a discharge of 

 a small cannon and a general shout of 

 "abordo" waked me, when instantane- 



