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sengers and all, were called upon to take the sails off the ship, 

 which we did in quick time. The storm soon subsided and the 

 next day was fine and we lay to awhile till the jury bow-sprit was 

 prepared and we passengers used to congregate at the bow of the 

 vessel. One evening, we were discussing our position and the ship 

 was pointing west and in the morning she pointed to the sun again 

 and an Irishman called out: "By golly, the sun is rising this 

 morning in the west." He had no idea that the ship was just 

 merely lying at anchor and that the current had caused her head 

 to swing round. After the storm, the Captain had taken his bear- 

 ings and said we were so close to Newfoundland that he would 

 put into St. Johns if the weather did not moderate. It moderated 

 and we headed for the St. Lawrence and had fine weather all the 

 way up to Quebec. The beauties of the St. Lawrence have been 

 spoken of so often that I shall say nothing now about them. 



When we reached Quebec we cast anchor in the stream some- 

 where about the Isle of Orleans. There were quite a number of 

 ships at anchor at that time and our Captain took a boat's crew 

 and some passengers and the boatswain up to Quebec when he 

 went to report at the Custom House. It seems that they all had 

 more whiskey while ashore than was wise and the boatswain and 

 the Captain quarrelled coming back. As soon as the boat touched 

 the ship's side, the Captain ran up the ratlines on to the deck, 

 seized a marline-spike and, as the boatswain came up, struck him 

 on the head and the man fell into the sea and was drowned. The 

 crew held a meeting that night and decided not to work the ship 

 any more and, a strong wind coming up, the anchor did not hold 

 and the vessel fell off a long distance from where she was anchored. 

 The Captain signalled up to Quebec and the river police came 

 down and took charge of the ship. It took them a long time to 

 get the vessel warped up to where she had been the night before. 

 We heard afterwards that the Captain had been imprisoned and 

 tried for the murder of the boatswain, but it was shown that he 

 was not at fault. 



The next day we left Quebec for Montreal. We went up on 

 the "John Munn," evidently a flat bottomed boat, because all 

 night long three men were occupied in rolling great hogsheads 



