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mediately gave me his dispatch and I waited 

 a wind, only Porter and the cook remained 

 with me. Woodbury and Low had recovered 

 and walked home, and I obtained no assist- 

 ance whatever from any of our crew. Cap- 

 tain John Doane and his amiable wife were 

 like parents to me in my illness and in my 

 business, more attention was impossible to 

 be paid than was by those kind people. 

 The whole of the inhabitants of Chatham 

 seemed to vie with each other to entertain 

 me comfortably and in justice to them, dur- 

 ing all the transaction of the shipwreck, no 

 instance of robbery or loss of anything oc- 

 curred from those people. I wish I could 

 say the same of the Orleans people; they 

 were detected in taking bags of coffee, and 

 actually took one in defiance of the watch. 

 Apparatus of the vessel was stolen, more 

 or less, and deposited in an obscure out- 

 building belonging to Mr. Timothy Blank, 

 where it was to lie for division. This fact 

 I detected by taking one of his party in a 

 snowstorm with our effects in his posses- 



