172 THE WHALEMAN ; OR, 



learned, came into collision with another ship off 

 the mouth of East River, during the same gale 

 in which the Citizen was lost. It appeared she 

 was abandoned by her officers and crew, who 

 effected their escape on board of the accompa- 

 nying ship. 



In the concussion which took place her fore- 

 mast was carried away and otherwise seriously 

 damaged ; besides, being near to land, and on a 

 lee shore, it was impossible to save her. 



From the position in which we found a por- 

 tion of her remains, it seemed that, after she was 

 abandoned, she must have beat over a ledge of 

 rocks that stretches across the mouth of the river, 

 and by the force of the gale driven up the river 

 to the distance of nearly ten miles. 



We visited the wreck with the natives, who 

 directed us to the spot. We saw a part of her 

 quarter deck, with the ice piled up around it. 

 We saw, also, upon the shore, close by, some of 

 her timbers and broken casks partly covered up 

 with huge masses and blocks of ice. 



It was doubtless the report of this wreck which 

 reached us in our winter quarters. But how far 

 it was east of us, or the circumstances attending 

 the wreck, how many were saved or lost, or 

 whether all were lost, we obtained no satisfac- 

 tory information from the natives at that time. 



