A WRITTEN PROTEST AGAINST THE CAPTAIN. 
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pating bis prey. 4th, rainy morning; it clears up at one, and 
we have a most delightful evening; a heavy cloud settles around 
the horizon, leaving us, as it were, in a lake as calm as a mirror. 
I never witnessed a more beautiful scene ; I am, however, in no 
humor to enjoy it. This is our thirty-eighth day out, and the 
prospects most discouraging; I am over due at home, and half 
the journey yet to be performed. 
At 7 P. M. it was announced that Wm. F. Capron, of Pal¬ 
myra, 1ST. Y., was dead; he was sewed up in a canvas shroud, 
and thirty minutes after his death, with lights on deck, in lati¬ 
tude 6° 34 ; 1ST., he was consigned to the ocean. 
5th. Delightful morning, with fine breeze. We saw a large 
turtle floating on the surface of the water, asleep; we lowered 
a boat, and pulled off for him, but he awoke, and suspecting 
our movements, applied his propellers with great dexterity, and 
diving toward the bottom he was soon out of sight. He pro¬ 
bably hailed from Cocus Island,-distant one hundred and twenty 
miles; his object in cruising in these waters we were unable to 
learn. It being Monday, it was shrewdly suspected that he had 
been out, on the previous night, in search of bright eyes. His 
being asleep in the middle of the day, and his apparent embar¬ 
rassment on being discovered, were evidence upon which almost 
any jury would have convicted him. 
6th. Calm, heat insupportable, and we are short of provisions. 
I have a warm conversation with the captain, and draw up a 
protest, have it signed by the passengers, designing to lay it 
before the consul at Panama. 
PROTEST. 
We, the undersigned, passengers on board the ship Edward Everett, Capt. 
Henry Smith, do hereby most solemnly aver that we were induced to take 
passage on said ship by representations made by said Capt. Smith and his 
agents, which representations were, that he had on board an extra supply of 
ship-stores, and that extra provisions had been made for the comfort of pas¬ 
sengers. For this extra provision an extra charge of $100 in the first, and 
$25 in the second cabin, had been made, above that of any vessel sailing 
from the same port for the same destination, during the present season. 
The above-named Capt. Smith, through public advertisements and other¬ 
wise, called the attention of invalids particularly, to the superior arrange¬ 
ments made for their comfort, that a physician would be in attendance, &c. 
Immediately upon getting under weigh we learned, to our sorrow, that we 
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