362 The Story of the New England Whalers 



the records as slave carriers. A few others were, 

 very likely, so used, but the record does not show 

 the fact. 



The story of the slaver-whaler Fame is soon 

 told. Captain William Tate bought her in Boston 

 in 1844, an d sent her to sea on June 18. On the 

 way to the Pacific the mate was killed by a whale, 

 and in 1846 Captain Mitchell died. There is 

 nothing to show whether she had taken any oil, 

 meantime. The second mate, a native of the 

 Azores whose home was in New London, and 

 who had shipped under the name of Anthony 

 Marks, took the ship to Rio Janeiro, where she 

 arrived in December, 1846. Marks told the 

 United States consul, Mr. Gorham Parks, that 

 the ship needed repairs, and that when he had 

 made them, he intended to go whaling and try to 

 make amends for the ill luck of the ship thus far. 

 The consul, of course, approved this proposition 

 and supervised the repairs ; but when they were 

 completed, Marks took on supplies of which Parks 

 knew nothing, and then, with a number of Bra- 

 zilians and Portuguese on board as passengers, he 

 sailed away. Having gone to the east coast of 



