166 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



swoon and was near gone; however, -he 

 lived three days afterwards when we buried 

 him as we had the captain, in all the so- 

 lemnity possible in our situation. We had 

 a strong north wind and were detained beat- 

 ing twelve or fifteen days between Cape 

 Mole St. Nicholas and Cape de Maisi with 

 thirty to forty sail of vessels. Spoke Cap- 

 tain Davis of Gloucester and informed him 

 of our loss. That night, the wind as strong 

 as usual, I concluded to bear up and run 

 down the Gulf passage, and in twelve days 

 I was off Havana, and in eight days after, 

 we were cast away on Cape Cod in a violent 

 snow storm on the thirty-first day of De- 

 cember, 1801. * The particulars are these. 

 I had entered the waters of Montaug Point 

 and was within ten or twelve leagues of get- 

 ting in, when the wind suddenly veered 

 around to the W. N. W., when we hove to, 

 blowing heavy. We lay to three days, and 



1 "A schooner, name unknown, commanded by Capt. 

 Gideon Rea, was wrecked on Cape Cod last week, vessel 

 lost, but cargo saved." Salem Gazette, Jan. 8, 1802. 



