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assistance Then a strong impression came over the captain to board the 

 br " and he could not shake it off. He was extremely des.rous to keep on 

 h "passage home, but the impression weighed on his m.nd. He felt uneasy 

 G:onbo°ard the brig! was the mandate plainly g.ven and he -d -t 

 dispel it. Finally he obeyed the premonition, and wtth four of h s men 

 .boarded the brig in the dory. It proved to be the i^'^-; -' •^^- 

 and abandoned. (She afterwards went ashore at St. John s Island.) Capt 

 tohnson .ot sail on her, and after she got well on her course he deserted 

 an obi cr as far ahead as he could see, which resembled a man on a cake 

 of ice He at once called attention to it and signalled to the schooner 

 With all speed they hastened to it in the dory, and on drawing near, wha 

 Tas their surprise in finding a man clinging to the ^o'tom a boa wh.cU 

 was painted white, thus giving the appearance of an tee cake in the d stance 

 Proved to be Mr. Gottfried Frankfurt, mate of barque Sea^oM, who with 

 hree men had boarded the brig, and upon their return the boat was cap- 

 sized alongside. Two of the men succeeded in getting on board, leaving 

 F ankfurt and a seaman named Peter Anderson, in the water They both 

 succeeded in clinging to the boat's bottom; the barque drifted away, and 

 ere the men on thf vessel got their boat ready the two were out of sight. 

 They had cruised around, and not succeeding in finding them, had given 

 then, up The cold was most intense, with a heavy sea, and for two hours 

 Fr nkfurt had managed to hold on to the submerged boat, with the water 

 up to his breast, the sea beating over him and the cold P-™"f ^i vi al s 

 1° was a terrible struggle for life, and his companion succumbed to the fear- 

 ful ordeal and slipping off the boat disappeared beneath the waters ! The 

 suffert man wasTake°n on board the Joh,uon, where kind hearts and wlU- 

 nfhands admiuistered restoratives, and he escaped without any serious 

 itoess The probabilities are that if Capt. Johnson had kept on his course 

 and n^t heeded the premonition, the man would have been drowned, as he 

 could not possibly have held on but a few moments longer. Who can ac- 

 count for such a premonition ? Surely it was not of the captain s seeking 

 as he was opposed to heeding it, supposing that the barque had rendered 

 all the necessary assistance, and he wanted to get home. The Seafood ar- 

 rived at Portland, where the mate joined her. 



Loss OF SCH. " Daniel A. BuRNHAM."-Sch. Danid A. Burnham.C^. 

 James Nickerson, was capsized on Grand Bank in the gale of the loth car- 

 rving away both masts level with the deck. The crew remained on the 

 wrefk five' days, suffering great hardships, when they were taken off by a 

 steamer and carried into St. Johns. The wreck was "^ -'^'"S;;"^ °^ 

 when the men were rescued. They lost everything, and were more or less 

 injured from exposure. 



