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night. At daybreak, however, there was not a boat to be seen. 

 An hour later they raised the third mate's boat, whose crew 

 wanted more water, for theirs, through some misadventure, 

 was ''all salt." Again they divided. 



At nine o'clock they saw the smoke of a steamer headed to- 

 ward them; she was the Borderer of Glasgow, three or four de- 

 grees out of her usual course to escape the head currents she had 

 met on other trips; she had thus picked up the second mate's boat 

 and was now looking for the remaining three. Accordingly she 

 took the captain's crew and the third mate's, and after some 

 further search had to give up the first mate's boat as lost. For 

 nine days it was on the sea and finally landed safe in Barbadoes. 



Captain Dalton, of the Borderer, extended to the men he had 

 rescued every possible courtesy and help. When they landed 

 at Pemambuco nine days later, he pressed upon the destitute 

 Captain Jenkins and his wife enough money to see them safely 

 home. And when the story reached New Bedford the Board of 

 Trade consulted with United States Government officials and 

 Captain Dalton received from the Government, with its resolu- 

 tions of appreciation, a gold watch, "suitably inscribed." The 

 Board of Trade presented him with a pair of marine glasses. 



So, beyond the financial loss and the discouragements of losing 

 a voyage, the Kathleen's men — excepting, of course, the crew of 

 the mate's boat — suffered no great hardship. Still, one wonders 

 if there weren't some among them who, in their hearts at least, 

 agreed with the parrot, who, rumour hath it, remarked solemnly 

 as she was let down ovei- the side into the whaleboat: " Damned 

 if I ever go to sea again !" 



