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ning across our course with undiminished sail, when sud 

 denly we see her upset. Staves and spars are floating 

 around, and presently we observe three men scrambling 

 up her sides, and seating themselves on the keel, where 

 they make signals of distress to us. By this time we 

 have run to a great distance ; but Claredge, cool and 

 prudent, as every seaman ought to be, has already issued 

 his orders to the helmsman and crew, and, now near the 

 wind, we gradually approach the sufferers. A line is 

 thrown to them, and next moment we are alongside the 

 vessel. A fisher's boat, too, has noticed the disaster, and 

 with long strokes of her oars, advances, now rising on 

 the curling wave, and now sinking out of sight. By our 

 mutual efforts the men are brought on board, and the 

 sloop is slowly towed into a safe harbor. In an hour af- 

 ter my party was safely landed at Eastport, where, on 

 looking over the waters, and observing the dense masses 

 of vapors that veiled the shore, we congratulated our 

 selves at having escaped from the Bay of Fundy" 



