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Capt. Morris, as is his custom, keeping watch of the dories, saw that the 

 one in which Norton and Sulkey were seemed to be drifting, without any 

 effort being made to reach the buoy, whither she was bound. Soon he saw 

 one of the other dories pulling for her with all speed, and then he supposed 

 that something was wrong. The other dory in due time reached the vessel, 

 having in tow the drifting dory, and reported they had found her adrift and 

 neither of the men were on board. The trawl gear was in the dory the 

 same as when they started, she had shipped no water, and the cause of the 

 drowning of the men was a mystery which could not be solved. One pair 

 of oars was picked up in the water. This indeed is a very mysterious af- 

 fair and without precedent, and no theory has ever yet been offered which 

 throws any light thereon. They were both good friends, and were spoken 

 of as first-class fishermen, Norton having been with Capt. Morris for four 

 years. There was no squall to throw them out of the dory. The only sup- 

 position which has any feasibility is, that one of them accidentally fell over- 

 board, and the other in attempting to save him lost his life, both going down 

 together. They were both married men, about thirty years of age, and res- 

 idents of this city. 



Twenty-four Days in the Ice. — Schs. Hereward^ Pennington, and Rat- 

 tler^ McPherson, which left this port for Newfoundland for a load of frozen 

 herring in December, 1875, got frozen in while on the homeward passage, 

 Feb. 9, 1876, in Fortune Bay, and there remained eleven days. Got clear 

 the 19th and went into the ice again the same day and remained there until 

 March 3. Schs. *S. C. Noyes, Hatfield, of Newburyport, an4 Charles A. 

 Ropes of Camden, Me., were also in the same predicament. Capt. Penning- 

 ton made a drawing of the scene, in which the four vessels are visible locked 

 in the ice, and the crews of the Hereward and Rattler busily engaged in 

 getting some provisions from the S. C. Noyes, which lay at a distance of 

 three miles. The ice was so rough that they were obliged to carry the flour 

 in bags, and the men with these bags on their backs, and the captain with 

 the empty barrel to put it in when it reached the vessel, made a lively scene. 

 It was a tedious experience for all hands, and glad enough were they to get 

 clear of their icy bonds. Fortunate it was that the Noyes could supply them 

 with flour, otherwise the men would have suffered for this necessary of life. 



Men Picked Up. — A Tough Time of It. — Sch. Cornelius Stokem, which 

 arrived at this port May 23, 1876, from Newfoundland, brought in two 

 Frenchmen, John Bouche and Adolph Crochu, who were picked up in a 

 dory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the i6th inst. They were lost from 

 their vessel on Banquereau while attending their trawls, and exposed to a 

 violent gale, the sea breaking over them 9,nd the weather being very cold, 



