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the mouth of the Gut, we found a calm, into which the " Minnie 

 Mac" had run and where she stayed till we came up. With 

 us also came a breeze, and we forged ahead of her into the 

 anchorage at Port Hawksbury just as we had said we would do 

 when we left Red Bay. Here we spent the rest of the day, lay- 

 ing in a stock of much needed fresh provisions, and sending 

 nine of our college base-ballists, at the invitation of the Port 

 Hawkesbury nine, to give them some points on the game. 

 About the fifth inning the game closed on account of darkness, 

 with score in Bowdoin's favor something about 30-0. 



A short run brought us into Little Canso, where we had to 

 turn to the west to go along the Nova Scotia coast to Halifax, 

 but fog shut down so we spent a day inspecting the plant of the 

 Mackay-Bennett cable, which has its terminus at Hazel Hill, 

 about two miles from Canso, finding some very agreeable 

 acquaintances in the persons of Mr. Dickinson, the manager, 

 and Mr. Upham, his first assistant electrical expert, who proved 

 to be a Castine man and was deligted to meet some Yankees 

 from his old cruising grounds, Penobscot Bay, and getting some 

 interesting knowledge concerning ocean telegraphy. It seemed 

 strange, to say the least, to be in communication, as we were, 

 with a ship out in mid-Atlantic, repairing a cable, and to have 

 an answer from Ireland to our message in less than a minute 

 after it was sent. 



With one stop on account of fog and threatening storm, we 

 reached Halifax in two more days. The introduction to it, 

 though, was not so pleasant, for as we were running up the har- 

 bor solid shot from one of the shore batteries came dropping 

 around us and skipping by us, altogether too near for comfort. 

 However, no damage was done beyond the injury threatened to 

 Her Majesty's property in the proposition for a while considered 

 to call away boarders, land and take the battery. We found 

 later that it was merely target practice and nothing disrespect- 

 fully intended towards the flag flying from our peak, so were 

 satisfied that we had not made any hostile response. 



Once ashore the hospitable Haligonians began by inviting the 

 Professor and others to a dinner at the Halifax Club. The next 



