SIR PATRICK, 
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have been forced to rig up a Glasgow merchant skipper 
into a jury sailing-master,, 
Any such arrangement is, at the best, unsatisfac¬ 
tory ; but to abandon the cruise is the only alternative. 
However, considering I had but a few hours to look 
about me, I have been more fortunate than might have 
been expected. I have had the luck to stumble on 
a young fellow, very highly recommended by the 
Captain of the Port. He returned just a fortnight ago 
from a trip to Australia, and having since married 
a wife, is naturally anxious not to lose this opportunity 
of going to sea again for a few months. 
I start to-morrow for Oban, via Inverary, which 
I wish to show to my Icelander. At Oban I join the 
schooner, and proceed to Stornaway, in the Hebrides; 
whither the undomestic Mr. Ebenezer Wyse (a de¬ 
scendant, probably, of some Westland Covenanter) is 
to follow me by the steamer. 
