THE LAST CRUISE OF THE MIRANDA. 



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his years, and accepted all manner of hardships with 

 cheerfulness and with calm philosophy. He was dubbed 

 the " Mascot." Who the more powerful spirit of evil 

 in the shape of a Jonah was, has not yet been finally 

 determined. 



Perhaps the real Jonah was the Miranda herself, if a 

 Jonah can be of 

 the feminine 

 gender. Certain- 

 ly the name itself 

 is suggestive of 

 hidden reefs and 

 tempests, and the 

 vessel's previous 

 history had been 

 decidedly unfor- 

 tunate. She was 

 built for the Red 

 Cross Line, in 

 Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, in 1884, 

 and had hardly 

 been put into ser- 

 vice between 

 New York, Hali- 

 fax, and St. 

 Johns when she 

 ran on rocks off 

 Point J.udith. 

 Later she struck 

 on rocks in Hell 

 Gate and sank, 

 but was raised at considerable cost. She collided with 

 an iron steamer, and later with a schooner, and it was she 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. FARRELL. 



