244 THE PAMELIA SPOKEN — INSUBOKDINATION. 



went into port ; for we knew that it was the inten- 

 tion of her captain to touch at Vasse about the mid- 

 dle of the present month. On our passage we fell in 

 with the barque Eagle, of New Bedford. She was 

 employed in cutting a whale she had taken the day- 

 previous, and, as the weather was anything but good, 

 she was having a dirty time. We afterwards learned 

 that she had lost the greater part of the head in the 

 operation. After a short time spent in company 

 with her, and learning that the Pamelia had been 

 seen a few days before, we resumed our course, and 

 the day succeeding spoke her, and communicated the 

 intelligence we had received at Albany. It was timely, 

 too, as they were now bound in, and twenty-four 

 hours' delay might have been productive of serious 

 consequences. On the 18th, her captain, knowing 

 full well that to enter a port in the vicinity would be 

 madness, made himself dependent upon the various 

 ships on the ground to contribute a quota in the sup- 

 ply of water, &c., to enable him to take a short 

 cruise, and reach the Mauritius. In' pursuance of 

 this idea, on the same day a raft of casks, in tow of 

 one of the Pamelia's boats, was brought alongside 

 of our vessel, and made fast ; then, according to or- 

 ders, they were hoisted in. Our crew had an inkling 

 of the affair, but said nothing, until they were 

 ordered by the first officer to fill these casks, belong- 

 ing to another ship, with the water from our own 

 casks, which it had caused us so much labor and 

 trouble to procure, and which would have to be re- 

 placed from one of the wells on the coast, under a 

 burning sun, and through scorching sand. Under 

 these circumstances, a flat refusal was accorded to 



