MEET TWO YOUNG TRAVELLERS. 307 
lake. The captain said that his conduct must 
be regulated entirely by the appearance of the 
weather on the following day. 
Early the next morning, whilst we yet re¬ 
mained streehed in our births, our party was 
much surprized at hearing the sound of strange 
voices upon deck; but our surprise was still 
greater, when on a nearer approach we re¬ 
cognized them to be the voices of two young 
friends of ours, who like ourselves had crossed 
the Atlantic to make a tour of the continent 
of North America, and whom, but a few days 
before we had quitted Philadelphia, we had 
accompanied some miles from that city on 
their way towards the south. They had tra¬ 
velled, it seemed, from Philadelphia to Virgi¬ 
nia, afterwards to Kentucky, and had found 
their way from the Ohio to Detroit on horse¬ 
back, after encountering numberless inconve¬ 
niences. There they had engaged a passage 
in a little sloop bound to Fort Erie, the last 
vessel which was to quit that port during the 
present season. They had embarked the pre¬ 
ceding day, and in the night had run into 
Put-in-Bay, as the wind was not favourable 
for going down the lake The commander 
of the sloop offered to stay by 6m vessel, and 
to give her every assistance in his power, if our 
captain chose to proceed down the lake with 
him. The offer was gladly accepted, and it 
x 2 
