THE SAIMA SER. 19 
making the voyage in some twenty hours in the small 
yacht-like steamer I have spoken of, steadily making its 94 
knots, or 10 miles an hour, and arrived there in comfort. 
Not so my fellow-voyager. He remained a day longer in 
Kuopia, and set out on his return in the steamer in which 
we had together gone there. Of his mishap he wrote to 
me :— 
‘I was sleeping in the longitudinal berth corresponding 
to yours in the“ Aurio,” when I was suddenly awakened 
with a crash which made my teeth jerk, and my travelling 
desk, which was on a shelf above my head, popped down 
on the top of my head. I got up, and screwed down the 
window, which was open, as the vessel was heeling over, 
and I was afraid she would go on her beam ends; and I 
then proceeded to dress, taking the precaution to throw 
the cabin door open, and putting my packages on the bed. 
The vessel was pretty full, and many rushed up without 
their clothes. After getting my clothes on, 1 got my lug- 
gage on deck, when I found that five feet of the vessel 
was high and dry on a mountain. The “Aurio” came 
past soon on her return voyage. She came and tried to 
tug us off, but it was all in vain. I then went back to 
Myslot in the “ Aurio,” and came on again in the evening 
with the “Elias Loimsot.” We found the “ Ainamo” still 
on the rocks when we passed, but two tugs were pulling 
away, and shortly thereafter she got off, and arrived in 
Willmanstrand on Sunday morning, about a quarter of an 
hour after the “Elias Loimsot.” As I did not care much 
about getting here on Sunday night, I went through the 
eanal with the “Ainamo,” stopped on board all night, and 
got here on Monday morning. ' 
‘As to the cause of the shipwreck, it appears that the 
captain being tired had asked the pilot to keep careful 
watch, while he rested for a little. The pilot promised to 
do. so, and the captain went down. After this the pilot 
seemed to have thought, What is the good of having the 
responsibilities of command without its indulgences! and 
he would have a chair-up to sit on at the wheel. He next 
