DEPARTURE FROM FRENCHMAN'S BAY. 231 



and thus onr old ship was given np to the mercies 

 of that ocean over which she had so gallantly rode 

 for more than half a century, and, as far as I am able 

 to judge, still rides as proudly as in her palmiest 

 days — carrying her spars as jauntily as any of the 

 constructions of shipwrights of the present day. 



At 10 o'clock on the morning of the 26th, the gale 

 having moderated and the wind shifted to a favor- 

 able quarter, we took our departure from French- 

 man's Bay. AVhen directly opposite Baldhead we 

 saw right and humpback whales, bound up the bay. 

 We lowered away, but could get nowhere near them. 

 They saw them from the fishery but met with like 

 success in their attempt to capture one. 



