I got into the boat, having been used to boats all my Jife, and I believe that every woman and .child passed through ray hands. It was hard to recognise voices or any thins else, but I heard, I believe, the voices of the Captain and first officer, and also of Mr Bell; but the noise made by the vessel on the rock was great indeed. Ido not think that Capt. Mackie and his officers could have done more than they did. I concur in the passages you have now read to me [from published letters]. We were very anxious to get the boat away from the side, because of the heavy rollers that were setting along the ship, and which might have jammed our gunnel against the side and upset as. This, I believe, caused us to go away without blankets and food. I was very quiet until I thought that something ought to be done in the boat which had not been done; then I said who I wag, and what it was right to do. From a boy, having lived at Portsmouth, I have been ac quainted with the management of boats under almost all circumstances. I think ;| blankets might, .perhaps, haye, been Bent to us earlier-, but blankets,-bread and water, were. Beat. We landed the >aromesf; and children at a nice sriiig little cove| quite conveniently. Some settlers there told me it; "was cal^^'V^tigaloa^; That? cove is about ~sw& nule* aorliiai *>f':.tliie' wreck. We were in tfce' l>oat firom *

quarter after eleven at night; until half past eight next morning. While in the boat; I noticed the current. I think'it was running two and a half to \ three knots an hour; I think that, be cause, while the hands lying on the oars, the boat drifted three quarters of a mile in from 20 minutes to half an hour. It was then that a boat from the ship was sent to give ua a tow op. i I had no other opportunity of judging of the strength of the current. 