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fancying I heard the same awful screams. Acteson and his com- 

 panions in the longboat drifted about all night, carried out and in, 

 and up and down the coast, the sport of the "wind, the waves, and 

 the tide, for without oars they could not make headway against 

 either. When the grey, cold October morning dawned, some 

 fishermen from L'Anse-au-Gascon put out, and coming up to the 

 longboat succeeded in towing it safely into shore. Several of the 

 shipwrecked crew of the longboat were quite overcome with ex- 

 posure and the horrors of the night, and had to be carried up to 

 the fishermen's cottages, where all were cared for with the great- 

 est kindness. It was Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, 

 when the Colborne was cast away, and until the following Satur- 

 day the wind blew heavily and the sea ran high. During all this 

 time the Colborne, thrown over on her side, or beam ends, and 

 water-logged, drifted about, sometimes receding from the shore 

 with the tide, and then blown in again, and carried up and down 

 the shore, past the scene of the disaster. 



BODIES PICKED UP ALONG THE SHORE. 



"On Saturday the storm abated. News of the w^reck had spread 

 far and wide along the coast, and a large number of fishermen 

 and others had gathered at the scene. As soon as the conditions 

 would permit, they put out in their boats and succeeded in towing 

 the wreck into Hai rington Cove, about two miles distant fi'om 

 Port Daniel. All this country is commonly spoken of as part 

 of the great peninsula of Gaspe, but Port Daniel and L'Ance-au- 

 Gascon, where the wreck occurred, are in the eastern extremity 

 of the County of Bona venture. After the wreck was towed into 

 the harbour, the bodies of a number of the sailors were recovered 

 from tlie tangled rigging, aad also the body of Capt. Kent ; while 

 the body of Capt. Hudson and that of his brother-in-law, Mr. 

 Walker, and those of his two children, were picked up along the 

 shore. Of the 54 souls on board, those saved were the second 

 mate, eight seamen two sons of Capt. Hudson, and one steerage 

 passenger. It was afterwards reported that the body of Mrs. 

 Hudson drifted across the Bale de Chaleur and was picked up off 

 the New^ Brunswick coast, and that in the clothing w^ere found six 

 hundred pounds in bank notes A considerable part of the 

 Colborne 's rich cargo was washed ashore, the waves even throw- 



