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making the voyage in some twenty hours in the small 

 yacht-like steamer I have spoken of, steadily making its 9J 

 knots, or 10 miles an hour, and arrived there in comfort. 

 Not so my fellow-voyager. He remained a day longer in 

 Kuopia, and set out on his return in the steamer in which 

 we had together gone there. Of his mishap he wrote to 

 me : 



' I was sleeping in the longitudinal berth corresponding 

 to yours in the " Aurio," when I was suddenly awakened 

 with a crash which made my teeth jerk, and my travelling 

 desk, which was on a shelf above my head, popped down 

 on the top of my head. I got up, and screwed down the 

 window, which was open, as the vessel was heeling over, 

 and I was afraid she would go on her beam ends j and I 

 then proceeded to dress, taking the precaution to throw 

 the cabin door open, and putting my packages on the bed. 

 The vessel was pretty full, and many rushed up without 

 their clothes. After getting my clothes on, I got my lug- 

 gage on deck, when I found that five feet of the vessel 

 was high and dry on a mountain. The " Aurio " came 

 past soon on her return voyage. She came and tried to 

 tug us off, but it was all in vain. I then went back to 

 Myslot in the " Aurio," and came on again in the evening 

 with the "Elias Loimsot." We found the " Ainamo" still 

 on the rocks when we passed, but two tugs were pulling 

 away, and shortly thereafter she got off, and arrived in 

 Willmanstrand on Sunday morning, about a quarter of an 

 hour after the " Elias Loimsot." As I did not care much 

 about getting here on Sunday night, I went through the 

 canal with the "Ainamo," stopped on board all night, and 

 got here on Monday morning. 



' As to the cause of the shipwreck, it appears that the 

 captain being tired had asked the pilot to keep careful 

 watch, while he rested for a little. The pilot promised to 

 do so, and the captain went down. After this the pilot 

 seemed to have thought, What is the good of having the 

 responsibilities of command without its indulgences ! and 

 he would have a chair up to sit on at the wheel. He next 



