14 AVES ISLAND. 



marked A, subscribed by Captain Wass, is true and correct in every 

 particular, the same having been this day read and exhibited to me. 



JOHN WASS. 

 Witness: A. B. Vanolinda. 



City and County op New York, ss: 



Before me, A. B. Vanolinda, a public notary in and for said city 

 and county, personally came and appeared John Wass, who, being by 

 me duly sworn, doth depose and say that the annexed certificate, by 

 him subscribed, is correct and true in every and all particulars. 

 Ft s 1 ^^ testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 

 *- ' '^ affixed my seal of office, this first day of March, A. D. 1855. 



A. B. YANOLINDA, 



Notary Public. 



To ivhom it may concern : 



I, Luther White, of the city of Boston and Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts, mariner, certify that on the twenty-seventh day of November, 

 A. D. 1854, I sailed from said Boston in the brig Panola as mate, 

 on her voyage from that port to the ''Aves" or Bird Island, for a 

 cargo of guano, and thence to the United States via St. Thomas, West 

 Indies, and that the statements of Mr. John H. McClennan, marked 

 D., also of Captain Warren Wass, master of said brig Panola, 

 marked A., also of John Wass, seaman on board said brig, marked 

 B., are true and correct in every particular, the same having been in- 

 spected by me personally. 



LUTHER WHITE, 

 Mate of brig Fanola. 



CoMMONWEALTn OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



Suffolk County, 



Then personally appeared the above named Luther White, and made 

 oath that the above statement signed by him is true. 

 Before me, 



GEORGE MORRILL, 

 Justice of the Peace. 

 March 2, 1855. 



Boston, March 2, 1855. 

 I, John H. McClennbn, of the city of Boston and Commonwealth 

 of Massachusetts, merchant, certify that on the twenty-seventh day 

 of November, A. D, 1854, 1 sailed from the said city of Boston in the brig 

 Panola of New York, Warren Wass, master, as the authorized agent of 

 Messrs. Wheelwright & Cobb, of said Boston, merchants, bound to 



