ENEMIES 189 



Captain Swift, was lying at Chatham Bay to replenish her sup- 

 plies of wood and water. Of the six men who had manned 

 the boat on June 23rd, only two — Captain Hosmer and Joseph 

 Cortez — lived to tell the story. 



The mate of the Janet reported to the owners that when he 

 had got his own whale alongside, he had run down to the only 

 boat in sight, which proved to be the one headed by the second 

 mate. Upon receiving the second mate's report that he had 

 seen the captain's boat fast to a whale to the windward, the mate 

 had sailed in the direction thus indicated, and had cruised there- 

 abouts for three days. But on board the Janet four men were 

 sick, and concluding that the whale had fouled the line and 

 taken down the lost boat, he had at length given up the search 

 and sailed for Paita. 



