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and our joy was heightened by the re¬ 
flection, that we might be the means of 
rescuing the innocents left behind, and 
having the guilty punished.” 
After a long and boisterous passage 
the ship arrived at Valparaiso, when 
she was taken possession of by the A- 
merican Consul, Michael Hogan, Esq. 
and the persons on board were put in 
irons on board a French frigate, there 
being no American man-of-war in port. 
There names were, Gilbert Smith, 
George Comstock, Stephen Kidder, 
Joseph Thomas, Peter C. Kidder, and 
Anthony Henson. 
Subsequently they were all examined 
before the U. S. Consul ; and with the 
following, an examination of Gilbert 
Smith, we shall commence another 
chapter. 
