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pecting the trick the angry man was playing 

 them. 



"My father was at some distance from the beach 

 when he heard one of his companions shouting, and 

 immediately ascending a small eminence, saw the 

 Tonqiiin standing out to sea under full sail. The 

 dismay and anxiety of the passengers may now be 

 imagined, for they knew the morose temper of the 

 captain too well to suppose that he would relent, so 

 hurrying down to the beach where the boat lay — a 

 little bit of a dingy, utterly unequal to carrying 

 nine men in a seaway — they launched her, crowded 

 in, and pulled out after the vessel. The wind was 

 blowing very freshly, and the sea M'as high, so it 

 was a mercy that she did not sink under them, more 

 particularly as the bucket they used for a baler was 

 dropped overboard by accident, and one of the oars 

 broken in endeavouring to recover it. The vessel 

 was now several miles off, and the abandoned men, 

 among whom was the chief partner, Mr. Astor's 

 representative, had lost all hope, when the ship 

 was seen to wear and stand towards them. After 

 narrowly escaping being dashed to pieces against 

 the Toiiquiiis side, they were all got safely on 

 board, after si.x hours of protracted misery in the 

 boat, and that Captain Thorn fully intended to 

 abandon them is evident, for he wrote from the 



