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It would be needless to dwell upon the painful cha- 

 racter of the occurrences on the succeeding day ; how 

 we searched the place fruitlessly for the suspected 

 criminal a Eussian. 



Two days later we set sail, bearing with us the 

 wounded man and the corpse of the murdered one. 

 May I never have such another experience in a 

 ninety-ton schooner ! How the winds blew ! Oh ! the 

 horror of that passage, with a delirious victim, a 

 corpse, and a drunken and abusive captain for com- 

 panions. For days together the wheel was lashed, 

 and we lay, with hardly a stitch of canvas showing, 

 hove-to in furious hurricanes of wind, shut in below 

 with the stench of the bilge-water. How thankful 

 I was at last to arrive at San Francisco, after a pas- 

 sage which seemed a lifetime, but endured in reality 

 for just fifteen days ! 



