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sail at one and the same time. The sail we knew to 

 be a whaler, from her boats and davits, and a suc- 

 cessful one, too, by the smoke arising from her try- 

 works — she being evidently engaged in trying-out 

 blubber. On running across her stern and speaking 

 each other, both captains answered to the question 

 of " AVhat ship is that ?" " The Pacific." One, how- 

 ever, belonged to New Bedford, the other to Hobar- 

 town. The preceding week she captured two whales. 

 She reported that she had been cruising to the south- 

 ward on the SuUender ground, in company with the 

 ships James Allen and Alexander, and the barque 

 Wavelett — that all three of these vessels had been 

 extremely successful in capturing whales, but that 

 the Wavelett, when last seen, was on a lee shore, 

 with a large whale in tow, which eventually she cast 

 adrift. Her position was such that the captain and 

 oificers of the Pacific unite in thinking it impossible 

 for her to have escaped from the peril, and should 

 she have gone ashore, the rugged and precipitous 

 coast in the vicinity of Mason's Bay, where she was 

 last seen, augurs the destruction of vessel and crew. 

 "We made up our minds from this report that the 

 "Wavelett and her crew, who but a short time before 

 had been enjoying themselves with us iu King 

 George's Sound, had gone to Davy Jones's locker; 

 but five months afterward we were agreeably sur- 

 prised on picking up a paper published in the Bay 

 of Islands, to find her reported as lying in port there 

 with considerable increase in her stock of oil. 



One of those continued and heavy squalls common 

 to the coast set in on the next day. They are 

 foretold by the rapid falling of the mercury, and 

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