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deal of diffitulty, and again putting about we steered for the harbor 

 of Chateau or rather Temple Bay, which is the true harbor at this 

 point, but we did not part with the gale so easily. 



•As we entered the narrow passage to the bay our captain shouted 

 to take down sail, but the pilot countermanded the order ; at least, 

 between the two the order was not obeyed, and, as we were run- 

 ning with the wind now almost dead ahead, though a little on our 

 port, suddenly rounding the point of land on our left an unusually 

 terrific squall struck us, and with a sound like thunder our main 

 boom snapped like a pipe stem. Had the sailors not rushed to the 

 ropes and instantly taken down the sail it would have been blown 

 to threads in a moment. Our jib alone was now sufficient to take 

 us to the safest position in the harbor, where we soon let down both 

 anchors, paying out nearly all the chain on each. Here we stayed 

 in imminent peril all night of being hurled upon the rocks the other 

 side of the harbor, not forty rods away, at any moment. Thank 

 Providence our good ship weathered the blast. The next day the 

 sailors spliced the boom with spruce side pieces and about twenty 

 fathom of a nice three-quarter inch manilla dredge rope belongmg 

 to our largest dredge ; as we stayed at Temple Bay and about Cha- 

 teau for two or three days, owing to bad weather, I will try to des- 

 cribe the place. 



Chateau Bay is a small bay and comprises really the outer en- 

 trance only of a much larger inside bay. The larger is called Tem- 

 ple Bay, though it is often mistaken for Chateau proper. Henley 

 Harbor is a small harbor outside the main bay and a little to the 

 eastward of it. The point of land separating Temple from Pitt's 

 Bay, east of it, is called Pitt's point, just outside of this is Whale 

 island which fills the cove so closely that but a very narrow entrance 

 admits vessels to the harbor within, yet the water is deep enough 

 here for even large vessels. 



Whale island is thus named from a most extraordinary resem- 

 blance to the shape of a whale's back. It can only be seen from a 

 single position (the foot of a large hill said to be seven hundred 

 feet high) in Temple bay and in a northwesterly direction from the 



