262 THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



miles in a northerly direction, and there we found 

 the ill-fated boat, not bottom up as we expected to 

 find her, but quite upright and almost full of water, 

 with a dead body, face downwards, across the 

 thwarts. The body was that of Captain Clisby. 



" As the weather was calm, and the boat did not 

 appear much damaged, I got one or two of the men 

 to help me bale her out. After some time spent 

 in hard baling we got the water under, and managed 

 to plug up some of the holes in her with oakum. 

 Then taking her in tow, we succeeded in reaching 

 Blacklead Island late in the evening. 



"Our arrival caused, as may well be imagined, 

 great consternation and grief. The relatives of some 

 of the men were on the island, and then all the 

 people knew what a friend they had lost in Mr. 

 Parker. 



11 Captain Sheridan, a Captain Marshall, and 

 myself carried the body of Captain Clisby up to 

 Mr. Noble's store. 



' Here, on examining the body, and from the 

 marks and wounds discovered, together with the 

 position in which we found the deceased, we are 

 led to infer that after the boat left Blacklead Island 

 (the wind was quite fair when she started) the boat's 

 boom-end, through the motion of the craft, was 

 rolled under the water, and while the boat was 

 thus held down the sea rushed into her. 

 " In this emergency Captain Clisby, knowing 



