no EVIDENCES OF A WRECK. 



visible for a long distance on the thick, spongy moss which every- 

 where carpets the ridge just back of the house. Towards evening 

 the men returned bringing the looked-for news — not that we wished 

 a vessel to be wrecked for our special benefit, but should there be 

 one we desired to know of it and see it if possible, — there had 

 been a large brig wrecked on her passage from Montreal to England 

 laden with lumber. The men reported the harbors and coves 

 everywhere along the shores as full of logs and deal boards. The 

 crew, it appears, were saved, but the vessel was a total wreck. As 

 a short account of this wreck may be of interest I append the 

 facts as, being present, I was able to obtain them. 



It was on the evening of November 30, that the boat and 

 men returned from a short sail up the bay, where they had been 

 to visit some traps that had been set there, bringing with them 

 news that a large piece of the bulwark of a vessel was lying above 

 high tide on one of the islands, and that to all appearances there 

 had been a vessel wrecked during the preceding stormy weather. 

 I think that it was later in the same day we heard that a gang of 

 men had been sent for in a great hurry by one of the chief men 

 on the coast, for the ostensible purpose of doing some work on the 

 framework of a building that he had for some time proposed con- 

 structing ; putting together these two circumstances it seemed safe 

 to conclude that something unusual had occurred, and it also 

 seemed equally safe to suppose that that something was a ship- 

 wreck. 



In such a locality as this, remote from habitation, the struggle 

 for life is by no means easy ; and at such a season as this, when 

 time hangs heavy, it is not to be wondered at that the news and 

 this probable interpretation of it spread like fire, and everybody 

 was awake to be off and see what was to be seen, or find what was 

 to be found. The people about could hardly wait until the next 

 morning before starting off in their boats, and it was yet early, in 

 fact before daylight, that a party from the house, with a small sack 

 of provisions, in case they should be obliged to stay away over 

 night, started in search of the supposed wreck. Those of us who re- 

 remained at home of course did our best at speculating as to the 



