26 THE WHALEMAN ; OR, 



Her officers were the following, namely : first 

 mate, Lewis H. Roey, of New Bedford ; second 

 mate, John P. Fisher, of Edgartown ; third mate, 

 Walter Smith, of New Bedford ; fourth mate, 

 William Collins, of New Bedford. Four boat 

 steerers, namely : Abram Osborn, Jr., and John 

 W. Norton, of Edgartown, John Blackadore 

 and James W. Wentworth, of New Bedford. 



The following were nearly all the names of 

 her crew : Charles T. Heath, William E. Smith, 

 Christopher Simmons, George W. Borth, Darius 

 Aping, William Nye, Manuel Jose, Jose Joahim, 

 Charles C. Dyer, Charles Noyes, Edmund Clif- 

 ford, George Long, Charles Adams, Bernard 

 Mitchell, Nicholas Powers, William H. May, 

 Alpheus Tow T nshend, Barney R. Kehoe, Joseph 

 E. Mears, James Dougherty, and Peter M. Cox. 

 The whole number on board when she sailed 

 was thirty-three persons. In addition to the 

 above, five seamen were shipped at the Verd 

 Islands, which made thirty-eight, all told. 



As is generally the case, the majority of these 

 were strangers, and perhaps had never seen each 

 other's countenances until they appeared on the 

 deck of the ship, henceforth to be their new home 

 for months, and it may be for years. 



Besides, in this number there were representa- 

 tives from different and distant sections of the 



