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ship and treated with every possible attention and kind- 

 ness. 



The names of those who perished on board the boat are, 

 Francis Hawkins, third mate, of Augusta, Maine ; James 

 Fairman, seaman, of Ohio ; Henry Thompson, seaman, of 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Edward Henry Charles, place 

 of residence unknown. 



The mate of the Janet explained his apparent neglect of 

 the captain, in a letter to his owners, as follows. After men- 

 tioning the fact of three boats putting off for whales, as stated 

 above, he adds: 



At three P.M. I had my whale alongside, and soon the 

 ship came to me ; and when I got on board there was but 

 one boat in sight, and that was five miles to the leeward of 

 the ship. I went down to it with the ship, and found that it 

 was the second mate's boat. He had seen Captain Hosmer 

 two hours previously, fast to a whale, and went to the lee- 

 ward of him when last seen from the boat. 



We proceeded in the direction in which the captain's boat 

 had been last seen, and lay to all night, with all sails set, and 

 with all our lights fixed. In the morning saw nothing of the 

 boat. We cruised three days, but, unfortunately, without 

 meeting any trace of her. In the mean time, four of our 

 hands were sick from fatigue, and we were under the neces- 

 sity of making the best of our way to this port (Payta). 



We had taken 100 barrels of oil for the last ten days pre- 

 viously, and lost 200 barrels during the same time by losing 

 lines. I expect the captain's boat was taken down by a foul 

 line, as he had a new line in his boat, coiled two days previ- 

 ous to the accident ; we saved one whale the day the acci- 

 dent happened, and lost another that night. 



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