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record for all was held by the three-masted 

 schooner Fannie E. Wolston, which was aban- 

 doned on October 15th, 1891, and was last 

 seen on February 20th, 1894, ^^ eight hun- 

 dred and fifty-eight days from the time she 

 was left to the mercy of winds and waves. 

 During that time this ocean waif drifted the 

 enormous total of seven thousand and twenty- 

 five miles and, as at last accounts she was still 

 supposed to be afloat, no one can tell how far 

 she eventually travelled. During the time 

 that this derelict was reported she traversed 

 a large portion of the North Atlantic in her 

 wanderings. Abandoned off Hatteras she 

 travelled northward in the Gulf Stream until 

 off Norfolk, Virginia, when she started east- 

 ward and drifted far towards the coast of 

 Africa, being reported more than halfway 

 across the broad Atlantic on June 13th, 1892. 

 Here her course altered and for three hun- 

 dred-odd miles she moved directly south, 

 until July 14th, when, as if guided by unseen 

 hands, she headed northwest, drifted for two 

 hundred miles, turned on her tracks, retraced 

 her course for a hundred miles or so, again 



