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Sceatch of the preformance on bord Bk, Cleone

On her third Season in the Arctic in 1861.



We arrived in the port of Honolulu, S. I. [Sandwich Islands] March the 6th {1861/03/06} for recruits for the Northern season and to geat a new Foremast put in. Before the work began, Captain Simmons Discharged Mr. Knowles the mat whoiv came out frome home with us and Shipped in his place a man by the name of Chace, who came over from the Coast of Cali [California] with us as passenger. he had left the bk Coral in Turtle Bay the vessel that he had shipped in as Mate for the ensuing Season for reasons best known to Captin [Captain] Sisson of the above mentioned vessel. And now to begin my Story.

Mr. C [Chace] came on bord of us on Duty March the 10th {1861/03/10} or thereabouts. we had the old Foremast all ready for heaving out when he came on bord. we got the mast out after a while, but not without knocking down three or four of the Knackers not that thay were disobedent or anything of the kind, but because it was customary in Merchant ships when a new Mate first goes on board. Somtimes after knocking one of them down, he would com along with a Smile, and Say to me, if I had only got a fare clip at that Fello I would of fetched him, we got the new mast in after a fashion, but not without making a Job for the Carpenters by way of carrying away a portion of the lower deck which might have been Easily avoided.. the Knackaes by this time enterted a complaint to the Ortheriteis against him for ill treatment of them which seamed to check him in a measure whilst lying in port. the next mean action I saw him do was to knock a Sick man over who was about ready to die. This happened in the presence of the Captin. Just to show him that he was a chap to straighten them as he told him when he shipped. he sayes he told the Capt that no one should loaf about that ship's Decks when he was at work,"



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And that he was not going to work himself, only when there was whaling going on: and if there is any loafing to be done after you Comes me, Captin."

 Just before we were ready for sea, the 3rd mate was discharged leaving me the Only Officer that came from home in the Ship: and as there has neaver been an Officer in the ship a whole voyage since she has been a whaling. Except the present Captin: for that reason it has been the height of my ambition to make the voyage in the ship. and as I had Sailed with about all sorts of men since I have been going to sea, and neaver having had any trouble, I begain to flatter myself that it was a mighty oad man that. I could not sail with: but I little dreamt that a man would have the face to ship as mate of a whaler that did not know any thing more about whaling than mr. C. [Chase] does. the expierience that he has had Amounts to two Seasons North one as BoatSteerer & the other as 3rd mate and according to his own account did but little whaling & had trouble upon both occations. but not being in a capacity where he could excicise so much Orthority as he does now was much Easily goten along with.

We sailed from Honolulu March the 26th {1861/03/26} bound for the Arctic everything went along Smouthley for a while. we commenced geating ready for Whaling and we saw right away that there was a great many things in which Mr. C [Chase] was dificient, but we thought that we could put up with that, as he seemed to please the Cap to & had used us all right so far. He and the Captin wer quite intemate. the captin laughing quite hearetily at times at seem of the yarnes that he uest to spin him. but he soon plade out with with the captin. after thay had told Eatch other all thay know and had talked over all there family afares and let eatch other in to all theare Secrets and Mr. C. [Chase] thought he had the 



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Captin all soaped, then he concider to lower himself a peg and get on a yarn with some of us now + then but not if the Captin is on deck for if he came out of the cabin whilst Mr. C [Chase] was right in the middle of a Sentence with any of us he would cut it short and sneak aft as tho he had stoled something. it appeared as though that was a great crime in his Eye to be caught talking to one of the "under Officers as he termed us. the sum and substance of the Conversations that he had held with me was where he had knocked & topped them when he was in the merchant Services which he seemed to take a delight in telling about. if he ever under took to do any thing bright or smart in the way of ship's duty it was always when the Captain was on deck, for instance at Eight bells he would go Forward call out the watch then betake himself to the Steerage & hurry up the boat Steerers telling them that three minutes was long enough to turn out dress & releive the the masthead. them he would look around to see if the Captain was noticing him. after awhile he got along so far that he would come along to the Cabin door and hail the boy with his Commanding voice, loud enough for the Captain to hear him and ask if the Officers had been called down there. this was not for any interest that he took in such matters far from it for when the Officers did come on deck if the Captain did not happen to be around he would be all Smiles &, try to get on a yarn with them, ther by Showing as plainly as if he had said the words "its all right you know I only want to let him know that Ime a d---l of a fellow." we did not take much notice of all this. until he began to pile the thing on rather too thick. after a while he got the ider in to his head that he and the Captain were about the only persons of any consequince whatever in the Ship but not 



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Content with that he is trying to empres every body with the same Ider. the Captain says that he was recommended to him as being an A 1 mate of a merchant Ship. now even admiting this to be So the whaling community can best Judge of the benifits likely to accure to a Whaler who has for a Mate a man whou only recamendation was a good merchant meate a Lutenent in the Navey might be a veary good man in his place a good displenearen. and understand how to work a ship in a time of battle but at the same time he would mak a por man to come in to the Artic as Mate of a whaler to bos over men that was brought up in the busness from boyhood. Mr. C. [Chase] Says himself that he got 400$ advance in the Connt[?] made the passage to the Cost of Cal.. [California] in her & she got three Rip Sacks & the captin let him leave be cause she was going on a different crouise from what he shipped to go. that will do for a country yarn but it wont dew to tell what men he gets betwen 300$ & 400$ advance in this ship there by making a pretey good thing of it for a man that knows nothing about the trade. as regards his Sailing a ship I would onley state that he carried away the Jib and flying jib bome & Split the Jib all at one smash as prety as it could have been done by a commadore. I neaver had had any words with the man up to this time and was trying my best to avoid it. one day on the passage north we wer going to set a top mast Studding Sail it was my watch on deck & as the sail was about ready to go aloft, I stood aft, ready to gather in the Slack of the tack, as I had usually done upon Such accasons, when the mate was bossing the setting of the sail & the 4th Mate & boat steerer were there to preform the feat of bending on to it. the Captain was aft on the poop, the mate comes along and says to me, Jump forward there Mr. Strout and bend on to that Sail O if I could only get that voice to paper, it was not what the said that would of affected any one, but 



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it was the way he got it off, and the time he took for it. I mearly layd it to his not knowing any better, and as he had had me at a number of such jobs which would have worked verey well on board of a merchant Ship but would not do in a whaler as he not knowing anything about the bussines and calculating to Soft Soap the Captain for his seasons work. I had a few words with him at the time, I told him that I had been Second Mate of Upon nearely Six years a believed I knew my duty and allowing I had not known it, I should have meade a por fist[?] larning it of him with what expearince he had had in the whaling bussines. when I told him that there was a Boat Steerer bending on to the sail, he said that he did not think them any mor acount then foremast hands. I then told him if he had come aboard this Ship to make foremast hands of our Boat steerers who had steared boats all the voyage it was all right if the Captain was agreeable, but that he would make a poor fist[?] of it when he under took to make a boat Stearer of me. what I said I said calm and cool as poseible thinking it might check him and that we might get along for the future. it did for a while, but he soon begain with his old games again. which are freally Sickining to think of from trying to make himself out a grate beg Somebody in the Eyes of the captain at the same time not carring what became of his small fry so long as he made it out.

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side and every one was going about there duty as is expected in such a case (where there is a whale to be cut in) where is our man that is only going to work when there is whaling going on, he stands like a man that is lost and did not no how he got there, whilst the captain was preforming his Duty, while we are taking oil he is not the same man. if any of our whale man could see him about our decks thay would take him for a man who had come on board "gaminoing"[?] and was perfectly willing to lend a hand if anyone would only tell him what to do. when the oil was ready to go below he undertook to Stow it. that proved a failure, and his under Officers, (as he termed us) had to do it and as he know nothing about looking out for the hatchway one of the under Officers had to be there leaving him about decks with the men doing whatever might be required of him by the said under Officers, after the oil is all below and everthing is all right again and no likely hood of getting any mor wrightaway he begins with his old tricks again, and if we chance to check him, all he has to say is, that he dont know much about whaling, but but he knows how to be mate of a Ship allowing that we wer all on the same tack the Owners would get por returns for the risk tha run in fitting a ship and sending her out her after a Cargo. we whent to "Port Clarence" for the purpose of getting som wood. when the man who know how to be mate" let go the anchor[?] with out looking at the windless, wich caused one grand Smash, inside of the same 48 hours when the ship was under his change along comes a cake of ice with the tide carrying away the bob Stay & the Slide bords on the S. Side which might easiley have been avoided a few days after this while lying at anchor under East Cap, the Ship being again under his charge along comes another cake of ice on the Larboard side & taking off a Slide board which might as well not of happened. the reason



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why I mention those things which have been carried away is because there has been nothing carried away since he has been on board up to this date only when the ship was under his charge which has not been on an average more than two hours out of the twenty fore hours since we came on the whaling ground. around ice and land the Captain has been on deck all day & his under Officers having charge at night left our hero in charge but little of the time, as he seldom turned out of his bunk before a half an hour before breakfast time. he has not one frind in the ship, not a man on board but hates the very sight of him, when he was on his dignity and no whaling going on he had contraced the disagreable habit of transmitting his orders through the under Officers Saying for enstance if he wheanted a brom or a Shuvle brought aft he would post right throu (the) a crowd of the watch to tel on of the under Officers, after all this he had the face to come one day and ask me how it was that I did not appear towards him as I did when he first came on board I told him the reason Just a plaine as I have Stated it here and that it was no use for me to pretend to like him when I hated him from the bottom of my heart. I told him Just how I felt towards him and that I did not crave his Company and would be much obliged to him for the future if he would keep himself to himself, Just as far as Ship's duty would permit, and then because I wont converse with this man that I cant bear the Sight of he knowing that he has got the captain to back him-- is determined to pick a quarrel with me. he begins with trying to work me up by making it his whole study when I was below what he should set me at when I came on deack, which did not look well before the ships company that had respected me all the voyage and as the Captain an I had sailed together for over thirty months without ever having any trouble,



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for that reason I had made up my mind to put up with him just as long as I could Stand the preasure, knowing that the captain was a little inclind to back him in this mater. I put up with him as long as I possibly could, I then made up my mind to find out which way the cat was going to Jump, when I stated the case to the captain he made very strange of it, as though he had not seen the Squall arising, I then told him that I could not do any more duty under Mr. C [Chase] under the present Circumstances, he then threatened me with irons I then told him if he thought his owners, or the law would Justify him in putting me in iones for refusing duty under that man, after what damage he had been to the Ship and all concerned, to net his own pleasure, he then cooled off and said I was agoing to hurt him as well as myself by taking this step. I told him I did not want to hurt him or anyone Concerned in the Ship but if he insisted in upholding this 1 man that I could not do any more duty under him, but if there was a whale to come anywhere in sight of the ship that I would go in my boat and do my best for the benifit of all concerned, 'til such a time as I could make an exchange with som one on board of som other Ship and if no such chance turned up that I was willing to sacrifice my seasons' work if he stil insisted in keeping that man in ruining [???] the Season's work which he was bound to do if things went on as thay had don. he allowed I was faire enough about it but it would not look. well, I told him I was only acting for myself, and had not tried to influence any one ells and if the rest of the officers an crew could put up with him wel & good but that I could not stand it any longer. when I told him that he was the only frind that mr. C [Chase]. had in the Ship, he said that he know that & that he was not so much of a frind as I took him to be, likewise acknowledging that he had been badly bet in the man. and that he was the man 



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that was to blame, and that he had got to put up with it and wanted I should. farther mor he told me that I satisfied him or he would have discharged me when in port, he said that he saw a great deal mor of the man than I thought he did. but that it was only for a little while longer. and he had got to put up with it. and wanted I should, I told him that was impossible, that I had stood it a long as I could, and went to my room. the Captain then had a talk with the other officers, thay say that they told him that he was acting very wrong in upholding mr. C [Chase] in this matter he said he know it but could not help it. and if thay could not do duty under Mr. C [Chase] that before he would put him of duty or let him go out of the ship he would go to the Islands, the Officers not being willing to lose the season offer to take him on trial a Spell on conditions that he dont interfere with them. Without any farther conversation with me the capt come into the forwaid cabin and told me to take my things into the Steerage (this was on the 19th of July {1861/07/19} which I did without a murmer, I write this during my first three days off duty from reccelection, thinking it my duty to vindicate my character and warn the whaling community against such men, the only reason I can give for the captain takeing the part he has in this matter is that he has had five diffrent mates douring the Six years that he has been master and not willing to let the public know that he has been so completely takin in by this man, he is willing to Submit to most anything



But When I have got to Sacrifice my comfort and be robed for such purpose and not say any thing about it will be when I have lost my speech. all I Say I can prove and much more if nescessary, but I think I have Said enough.



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A Sceatch of Captain Simonons [Simmons]. 1861 {1861/00/00} when I shipped I asked how it was that he had so miny defrent officers on his last voyage. and was told the onley reason that thay give for leaving was because Capt. S [Simmons] was not Soshable. I made my mind up right away that if that was the onley falt that he had, and was the man for a voyage that he had the name of being, that I could sail a voyage with him Just like a book. wel to begin my storey we seat sail and stood out of Busards Bay [Buzzard's Bay] with a fine breeze on the 5th of Oct 1858. {1858/10/05} we crused along til we came on the River Plate I saw nothing out of the whay with the man during the passeg. I was told that he was a member of the Church when we sailed. and I could plainley se that there was somthing very heavey on his mind. the Foreward and after caben was tow seperet appartments. he and the mat lived in one and the rest of the offisers in the forward one. and for that reason I was never in his compnay onley when at the table. where thare never was a word spoking durind the mels, as I had never herd him convers with any one on deck. I began to feel entrested about the man so I asked the mate one day if he had ever had any talk with him and if he know what it was that was whaing so heavey on our Captain mind. he said that the Capt told him he was veary home sick. the mate sayed that the onley thing that apeard to con sole him was the bible, witch the mate said he genrelly found was his companoin when ever he wint in to the after Cabin. mr. K [Knowles] the mate sajed he thought he was a cristehen and thought a gradedel of his famley. we both pitied him and hoped that he might over com his greef. for we ded not like the idear of losing our worthe captain. we soon changed the sen of home and frinds for the excitment of whaling, for hear we was right whear the Monster kicket[?] that we was crusing for, the very first one that hove -



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in sit we captured him. we apeard to be in luck. we took fore mor during the short time that we wer on the ground. and I began to think I had got in to a ship for a voyage after all. the Captains homesicknes left him. and he plade the part of captain. and conducted the whaling right to the handle in my whay of thinking tel the fith whale was brought along side. we had the most of the oil on deck that we had taken and was a concedreble lombord up and it was veary nessery that we should stow down befor we commenced cuting, as the weather in thos parts are not to be trusted to far, and we had a strong breeze at the time we let the whale lay along side. and Stowed the Oil down, and got throw and had the deacks cleard ready. for cuting by 3 oclock in the after non leving plentey of time. to geatthe whal inbord and safe be for a blo might com on. for the weather looked bad at the time. the mate being in the hold. I asked the Capt if we should get ready for cuting. he said no that he should let the whal lay til the next day. (this rather took me aback) as I had never ben with a captain that would throw 3 hours day lit awhay with a whal along side. this rather stuck in my crop. but as he was not a soshable man with his officers. and had not asked me my Openion of the weather, for that reason I had kept mum, leving my shear of the whale to his Judgment. I had a talk with Mr. K. [Knowles] and he said he thought it was rather riskey to leve the whal there when we had time to cut him in. we looked at the whale and at one another til dark, then the wind began to breeze on. about mid night it blot a freash gale. about 12 o'clock the Fluck Chain parted, but as luck would have it we had a line atached to his head. it was was my watch on deck at the time. I slacked off the whale out a stern of the ship giving him scop enugh to let him rid Easy. I then cald the Capt and told him the fluck chain had parted and that the whale was hanging out a stern by a whale lin. he did not turn out of his bunk all he had to say was let him go
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we tried to hul him up under the sturn to get sum mor line atached to him but found that was emposble. so stacked him out again. where he hung til morning. then the line parted. three or for dayes after this we picked the whale up again and cut him in. we lost one side of the bon besides not being such an agrable job as it would of been to have cut him when he was freash: that was the last one that we got. as the captain was very anechous to get up on to Kodac when he had taken his oil the voyage befor. we past a ship a cuting the day we left the ground. we squard awhay for Cap Horn, [Cape Horn] every thing was going on smothley. the captain was never non to talk with any one up to this time. a nother thing that was quit strang to me was a habit that he had of turning in with out leving any cours. in such caces we genrelay left it to the man at the whel how would mor and likley be a man that had never saw a ship or a compas befor he came on bord of this one. we had a very pleasant passeg around the Cap and was get on towards the Sandwitch Islands [Sandwich Islands] nicely, with the work going on all wright as far as I know as I had never herd the Captain find any falt. as for our living we lived a well as could be expected as our Steward was good for nothing. but the table was rather a cramped up place as we onley uesd the one end of it. one day as we wer running throu the trad winds and squalley weather about the line som wher I think it was. we wer at diner a squall strok up us. the Captain was on the lee side of the table. a bol of Tonions[?] and vinigger accidenteley capsized spiling som of the viniger on the captain, witch was nothing so veary remarkable. but what, what surprized me was to hear an oth from our Church member saying to Mr. K[Knowles] y dont you lookout for your thingh. thear was not a nother word spoken as Mr. K. [Knowles] made him no ancer. the veary next mel befor Mr. K.[Knowles] got down to the table he pased the bol off to the boy teling him not to put 



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any mor on the table. It apeard to me from his actions that he was Sounding to se how far he could go with his officers and to se how much they would stand without, rezentin[?] it. as thear was plentey of Ionions[?] in the ship. we thought of cors it could not be the valu of them that made him stop them for the ships company was eating them for and aft at the time. Mr. K[Knowles] and I suposed it was only the viniger that anoyed him. and as we wer both very fond of them we told the boy if the Captain would not alow him to put a bol on again. we would try a few of them dry as they was quit a help to make out a diner when we had nothing but salt met and potatoes. thay was put on and the cappain had them past off just as Mr. K[Knowles] was seating down to the table right in his face and Eies. I was on deck at the time and knowed nothing about it until Mr. K[Knowles] told me after diner. Mr. K[Knowles] said he though it was best to let him go an se how far he would go betwen there and port. he saw he made out so well with that he made up his mind that he had seat that he could dew as he pleased with. after this I took notice that he enterfered with mr. K[Knowles] mor or les eavery day. mr. K[Knowles] being young took it all in good part thinking that would be the best whay to get along. but it want for he took the advanteg of every step. and went so for as to enterfear with Mr. K[Knowles] about the most simplest Joby on bord the ship right befor the hol ships compney. witch was leding the hol ships compney to think Mr. K[Knowles] deficent, when he was not in sutch maters as Captain S[Simmons] trid to make it out he was. he had never tryed thes tricks with me but he played them sucesfuley on the other officer wich I supose he thought he had a right to as thay wer both boat Steerers with him on his last voyage. all tho he never conversed with me he never enterfeared with me. but I was told by the officer that he would quit offten have a crack at me over there shoulders but this would never happen in my sight or
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what he should dew with it. as I had charge of the deck at the time. if the Capt or Mate had ben on deck I should os sent the cooper to one of them or consulted one of them befor teling the cooper to cut the barrell. but it happen to cum to mind that I had seen a barrell [???] of this same cind cut up a few dayes befor and throwed in with the cookes word to be burnt up and as there was not such a thing as a wash tub in the ship I thought it would be a good ider to have one made out of this old barrell. and told the cooper to make it. the captain came out on deck while the cooper was at work at it and apearentley in a great rage and began to abues the cooper. how was not to blam in the lest as he was only doing as he had ben told to dew by me, which the cooper told him. this did not check him in the lest but he mealy cast his Eies towards me with a quick glance and renewed his atack on the por cooper, and as the cooper was green and did not rezent it he apeared to delite in showing his Ortherty. I thought he was hiting me pretey hard as I had overherd the hol of it. I went up to the captain think it mit save the cooper any ferther abuse and told him not in a pashon but veary coolly that I was the man that was to blame and not the cooper. he mealey gave a glance at my feet and kept on with the cooper. from what I saw of him then and what I have sen of him at deferent times sence that he was a man that would not quarell with any one that was likely to rezent it, and if a man would stand and take it he would rage and raze his voyce louder at eavery word and make towards his man with pretentions to strik. but that seldom ocured as he was to much of a Coward. he prackist[?] this over the Shoulder work a graded with me first and last. which, to tel the truth I did not lik over an above will. for I would rather he would come to me and say what he had to say righ to my face.



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and then I should have been at home. and would have respected him for it. but as it was it was veary strange to me as I had never been with a captain coward enough to carey on such under handed work. Enstead of uasing the proper means, such is usually[?] is uesd on board ships whare thay have good displen and every thing go along strate. he Capt. S.[Simmons] I am sorrey to say choses[?] ether from want of knolege or spunk this under hande whay of doing bussinis. I had a talk with mr. K[Knowles] about it. and we both talked of leving when we got in Port. my reasons wer simply becaures I did not want to be in a ship wheare theare was no head-quarters and the Captain was affrade to tel his officers when thay were doing rong, which he was if he had the lest ider thay would rezent it. he had a nother veary bad habit of listtenian to heare what was talked about in the Forward cabin witch we cought him at anumber of times on the passege out. sum times when we were talking one of us has started to go on deck & catched him right in the act with his hand on the banester in a atetude for listing. when ever he was cought at it he would steel off as thow he had stolen somthing. he apeard to be veary jelous if he ever saw Mr. K. [Knowles] conversing + and stop look and listin as thow he thought we wher talking about him. this apeard to me to be to be veary low bisinus for a Captain to be cought at. we arived in the Port of Lukinana March the 18th, 1859, {1859/03/18} for recruts befor going north. Mr. K[Knowles] and I had a nother talk and as we had made sutch a far begining for a good voyage that we would try him one seaso, and then no would say we did not give him a fair tryale. we shipped our oil in the Ship Chapen. and got our recruts and Saild for Kodeac[Kodiak] on the 5 of Aprell. {1859/04/05} nothing hapend on the passeg North werth of note. we crused the ground all over and over wher Capt. S. [Simmons] got his last voyag with out cuccess until the first of Jun {1859/06/01} we saw a veary few whales in June not mor then
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cut from was a noble whale. and I think we should have got him if it had not been for the lesons that Captain S.[Simmons] had given mr. K[Knowles] in regards to catching a Kodiac [Kodiak] whale. he gave mr K[Knowles] to under stand that the first thing he had got to do after geting fast was to cut the whales Flukes right off. it was bloing freas when we lowerd for the whale the ship was under Duble reffd top Sails. we had whaled with three boats ever sence we had left home and did on this acation. mr. K[Knowles] struck the whale. the 3rd Mate going on 2nt boat got stove veary ealesley[?] the ship being sum whayes of I had to take car of the stoven boat til the 4th boat come from the ship, wich took sum little time, leving Mr. K[Knowles] with the whale all a one about a mile disttance and I have not the lest dout would of had had him turned up befor I could of got to him if it had not been for the enstruction he had got from the Captain about this kind of a whale the whale by the time I got to him. had got cuning[?] I got fast after awhile but it was a slim chance and it being raged I was soon lose again as the whale was doing sum doging by this time not alowing me to geat nearer then a half mile of him and not alowing Mr K[Knowles] to geat his line in betwen his souindings I dont think I ever worked harder for a whale in my life then I did for that one it was bloing on all the time. and as the lase boats was loosing ground all the time, and the whale was encrecing his speed. Captain S[Simmons] set the Colers a signel for Mr K[Knowles] to cut and come on bord. where the Captain got his courage is mor then I could say, but he had a bottle out and offered[?] Mr K.[Knowles] and me sumthing to drink in the after cabin. I was both weat and could and did not refues. Captain S[Simmons] made no mention of the whale when we wer belo. in the Proper pace for such a conversation. he wated til I came out on deck: and then right befor the ships comppany



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with his voice loud enough to be herd all over the Ship. saying to me y in H---l dedent you for lay that whale. wether he thought the glas of rum was would pay me to stand and be abuesd is mor then I can say. but it apeard so, as we had been on board sum time and had not herd eneything about it befor. this was not right wich every one knowes that has ever been on board of a ship. that a crew wil not respect a officer that wil put up with such usage in there preasance. what he said razed me at once. I gave him an ancer that [???] him at once and made him feel as small in the hol ships comppney Eis as he had tryed to make me. he saw his misstake at once. and with out saying a nother word to me. turnd right around and atacked Mr K[Knowles] on the same strain y he did not kill that whale. Mr K.[Knowles] thinking it would be the best way to get along spok veary modrate shoing him his hands which was all of a blister. and told him he had don the best he know how. captain S.[Simmons] seeing that Mr K[Knowles] was not enclind to quarall and he came out on him in good ernist. Mr K.[Knowles] was not a man that would be imposed upon by any means. but he thought he would geat along beter if he put up with a little for the sake of giting along. after mr K[Knowles] had stood it as long as he possable could. he then told him that he did not fear and that he had not stood his abues because he feard him. captain S.[Simmons] thinking he migh bluf. him took the water pijen[?] and was in the act of throwing it at Mr. K.[Knowles] wich I think he would of don if Mr K[Knowles] had not rezented it. by armeing himself with a blaying pin teling captain S.[Simmons] to let drive his pigen. I dont think I ever saw a man look mor childish or cowardley then capt S.[Simmons] did at that minute. this was going on befor the hol ships cumpney. I had got tiurd of the seen I whent acrost deck and asked Mr K[Knowles] down belo. at the same time showing them the hol ship's cumppney which had been looking at them. I dont blame mr K.[Knowles] in the
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he might of taken the proper place and not abuesd his officers befor the ships compney. the men that thay had got to make obay them. we crused about on kodac [Kodiak] til about the 25th of Jun {1859/06/25} then whent in to bristle Bay [Bristol Bay]. we saw no whales thear. and as there was a number of the Kodac [Kodiak] flet bound for the Artic [Arctic]. we goind the croud. we got up off Plover Bay July the 13th {1859/07/13} went throw into the artic [Arctic] on the 28th {1859/07/28} we worked up towards cape lisbon [Cape Lisbon] saw plenty of ships but no whales. went up as far as Icy Cape. saw plenty of ice and wallruses. we crused about betwen lisbon [Lisbon] and icey Cape til the 25th of Augst. {1859/08/25} I then saw a nother weke point in our captain I herd him say a number of times right out befor the ships compney he thought it was a dark look for a whale, alowing he had thought so it would of look better in him to have kept it to him self and not tride to discuraged us. we fel in with whales at last. and maneged to gint three befor bad weather set in wich was befor we got stowed down. we took all three whales at one far.[?] we had bad weather from the time we finished boyling until we squared awhay on the 14th of September {1859/09/14}  Capt S.[Simmons] was sadley desapoinded when we had to keep off with onley three whales. he had a number of spats with Mr K.[Knowles] durnd the season but very seldom spok to me. ether good bad or indiffrent. as for my opinion of the seasons work I think we don first rate for the chance we saw. for I dont think I ever saw a harder sight for a seaons work sence I have ben a fishing. and I dont think I ever Spent a loncumer season. what ust to get me the most was to se the watch captain. and. Mate. pace. the deck all day long without speaking a word. this was something I was not ust to. for all the ships I had ever been in there was sum life. and for that reason it was sum time befor I could content my self to work the decks fore hours without speaking a word. if ever I
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Drunk and would sumtimes expres the same to Mr K[Knowles] which I after wards lernt from him. we got throu the Straits and down of Plover Bay the 17th of Sep. {1859/09/17} and tacked off the bay. there had never ben a word mintioned about wintring til we got right of the Bay. captin S.[Simmons] then asked Mr K.[Knowles] what he thought about stopeng in the Bay that winter. mr K.[Knowles] told him he was wiling to dew enay thing that he thought would be for the benfet of the voyage. he then asked me I told him I was wiling to do aney thing for the benefet of the voyage. but little did I dream that I was going to have such a lonsum time of it. we beat in to the Bay an Anchord. we found the Ship Robin Hood in the Bay she had run in to Stop a leak wich I bleve she scuceeded in doing. she saild on the 20th {1859/09/20} bound for the Islands. we sent letters by her .as the captain had made up his mind to stop: the day that the Robin Hood saild the Brig Wailuai[?] of Honolulu. came in. we gamed with her and lernt from them thay wer going to lay October {1859/10.00} out to se if the whals did not cum in the bay when thay came from the North. as soon as the anchor was down our decks was full of Natives baying and or Seeling evry thing thay could lay thar hands on. thay found the bread cask that stood opend in the after hatch and was in a fair whay to emptey it when I caught one of them cuming out of the Seattle with a bucket ful tide up in his Jacket I stoped him and was in the act of taking it awhay from him when. when the Captain came along and told me to let him have it. that he wanted to be frendley to them as we wer going to stop hear with them. I did not enter fear again with them for sum time thay emted three Cask inside of a weeke. thay carid of mor evry day then was consumed by the ships crew. I told captain S[Simmons] that I thought thay would bear a gradle of frindship. we seat down the Top Galant yards on the 20th of september. {1859/09/20} got the black smith at work making lances and spears to defend
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go out sid of the bay out off the heads most every day to look for whales. sum times we would go a gamming  on board the Brig. to pas awhay the time, sum times a shor to play ball or a skaten. the weathe got to be quit cold in the latter part of October.{1859/10/00} the Ice began to make on the out sid of the ship where the warter would swash aganst her. Captain Lus of the Brig made up his mind to stop with us if Captain S. [Simmons] would agre to find him in provisions as he had been feted onley for one season and his was about all gone. I bleve it was a under stood thing betwen the captains that the Brig was to stop. both vessels begin to make grat preperrations for whales for the Natives give us to under stand that when the whales did come in that it would not do to pound. so. we sent up about 400 brll and cask and landed them on the beach. sent down every thing from aloft, leving nothing up but the lor Mast, then we housd the ship over with canvis such as old sails. about the 10 of November {1859/11/10} we saw our first whale; we got the first one on the 15th.{1859/11/15} by this time the ice had begun to make along shor, the dayes being short and as it was about right when we got the whale turned up. the Brigs boats lent a hand to geat him to the ship. after we got him along side it was allmost imposeble to move on deck for the Natives. and thay giv us to under stand that the whale belonged to them. wich was mor then we could stand after catching the whale ourselfs. we was fast to get out our armes and make a grate menney sines with loded muscets, and baynets, and spears, befor we could clear the decks. as soon as thay saw that we we dertemend thay was satesfide and got in to thar Canews and cut awhay at the lin. loding there Canews with it as we rold the whale. on the 17th {1859/11/17} the iner bay was froze over about a half inch thick. we lowerd the boats and brok our whay out in to clear warter thare was quit a number of whales in the outer Bay and sum of them in the bay from the ship as the ice was not
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time had got so naborly as to lend us a hand to tow the whales. November 18th {1859/11/18} the Bay was all coverd with ice except now heare and there a [???] hole. we lowerd but with out cuccess. for the ice cut the plank right throw on our boat. all we could dew was stand and look at the whales all around us. sumtimes thay would brake throw the ice within a ships lenth of us and lay and and spout for a half hour at a time. the ice was not strong enugh to bear a man to walk on it and to strong to brake our whay throw it. we was fast to give it up and go on bord. that night we had a strong breezes from the South driveing the ice all to the head of the Bay. we whent up the bay with our boats. it being freash from the South wen we startd with heavy hale squals. we saw quit a number of whales. struck one and turnd him up. Just at dark. under took to tow the Brigs [???] theane with us. it was bloing on at the time we anchord the whale and started for the ship. our fore boats got on bord safe after a hard tussle with the hale squals which was right a head as we wer to the North of the ship when we started to com on board. the Brigs three boats wer driven to the head of the Bay: as thay had got lost throw tring to help us we thought it our dutey to se them out of the scrape. on the morning of the 20th {1859/11/20} Mr K. [Knowles] picked a boats crew and went up the bay to look for the lost boats taken everything with him that would likley to be of any use to them. he found the 2n mat who had been anchord in the head of the Bay Just out side of the ice. he gave him all the asistence he could and got him started for a Native settelment which was not for from where he found him. it had modarated by this time Mr K[Knowles] then falerd the ice along that was jamed in the head of the bay think he might geat sum clu of the other 2 boats. after a crusing a whil he fel in with a man on a cake of ice about 6 feet squar. in side of the Porage ice a few ships leanth Mr K.[Knowles] worked his boat in to the ice til he got with in a
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Pok on the ice with him and there was a nother with in a short distance of him. wich he made sines was the spot where the mate had just gorn down throw the Ice. Mr. K.[Knowles] worked until he was farley bet out. the farther he got in to the ice the thicker it apeard to be and it was this Porag ice and it was imposble to get the boat throw it. and it was not packed soled enugh for a man to walk on it. as night came on the wind began to freashen again from the South Mr K.[Knowles] saw that he had to gain the shor befor dark. in order to save his own life as wel as that of his boats crew. so he was fast to leve this man who was diing righ befor his eyes. he gand the beach. Just at darek where he found a whit man. that gave him an acount of the los of the mat of the Brig. he sayed they wer all most to the brig. when the plug got out of the boat and thay could not find it a gain as it was not fast in the boat, and it took one man to keep the hol stopt and thay could not hold the boat aganst the wind with but 4 ors. the mate then giv up tring to get to the Brig, and kept off befor the wind. in hopes he might geat to a seattle ment thar was in the head of the bay. it was dark as pitch and he had not been befor the wind but a little while wen he found that he was in the eadg of this Porag ice and no way to back out. and as they wer in danger of capsizing by stop in the Eadg thay worked their way in with the boat, as far as thay could geat and layed in until morning. when thay found thay wer within a quarter of a mile of the beach. the Mate then told his crew if thay wanted to save there lives thay must try to get on shor. he gave them the ors. and thay started laying the ors on the ice and fleeting them along. thay made but slow heard whay but they finley reeched the shor. the mate and the boat steerer tryed a defrint plan thay lashed padles to there feet and taking a seal skin pak in thar hand, started for the bech. thay had not got far from the boat when the Mat fel throw and as the paddles we lashed to his feet it
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again. the boat Steerer then gave up and sat down on the cak of ice where Mr K[Knowles] found him. the man that was on the bech said that the Mat lived over an hour with nothing but his head out of the ice holding on to the pack. three of the crew wer Canackers [Kanakas] that gand the bech. thay started as son as thay gand the bech for the nearest settlement wich was about 10 miles distance wich thay gand with out much truble as thay had day lit for it and quit modrate weather. the man that Mr K.[Knowles] found when he landed. was a man by the Name of Witney whow ran awhay from the Robin Hood when she was in the bay. this man lost his on life trying to save his Ship Mates. he had been on the bech all day trying to study out sum way to save the boat steerer that was left on the ice. when he him seff had to keep in motion all the time to keep from freezing. when Mr K[Knowles] landed it was imposable to get off of the bech as the bank was right up and down Just above the hi warter mark. he had not been landed but a veary little while when the wind low a pirfict Hureycain[hurricane]. for the want of a better place. to shelter them seffs thay turnd the boat up aganst the clif and all got behind her to geat clear of the cuting wind, but this did not save them. as the gale encrest it drove the Sloush ice into the 2 inlets at the right and left of the head of the bay. leving them exposed to a heavey braker that son began to dash fritfuley aganst the Clif. thay left the boat in hops by falering the Clif along shor that thay might posably find a place wher thay could get shelter until day lit. thay mad veary little progres when thay first started for it was imposable for them to keep thar feet in the heavey gust of wind that would strike them at times and every now and again a breaker would drench them from head to foot. after a while thay come to a place where thay gand the top of the clif. where thay wer thay wer all clear of the fritful braker that had been dashing over them for the last 2 hours. thay soon began to
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as thay gaand the turn that mad the right hand inlet. wich was 5 miles dep and abot 10 mils around it. as the nearst settlement was right on the other sid of the enlet. thay had to travle clear around the head of it in order to rech it. when thay got befor the wind it was all most emposable for them to keep thear feet. it did not take them a grat while to travle the first 5 miles. but after thay turnd the head of the inlet and faced the wind then came the tug of war. for every now and then thay wer fost to lay down flat on the ground and hold on to the stones in order to hold thar on aganst the heavey gust of wind that apeard was dertermend to stop thare progress. thay had not got far. when sum of the weaker ones began to lag. and give up. thay stopt and wated for one another and incuraged one another until thay got within a mile of the Huts. wen thay reched that Point thay wer all so far gon that it would be serten death for the strongest of them to under take to seat down. for that ever lasting Slep that is so enticing to a man when he is benumed and tird in such cold slimet as this is shor to [???] them off. thay dropt off one to time on that last mile til ther was only 2 besides Mr K[Knowles] left. he said he coxt them and told them if thay sat thare & one gave up to that slep that apeard so enviting to them that thay would slep to never wake again. thay said theare wil was good but theare leags had gave out. Mr K[Knowles] then left them an gaind the Huts[?] with with his 2 companions. after travling 12 hours to get only 5 miles. all the rest of thare hardships wer nothing compard to that 5 miles aganst that Stom. Mr K. [Knowles] used eavery menes in his power to get the natives to go out in surch of those that wer left behind. after a while he got them to under stand by making sines what he wanted them to do. Mr K.[Knowles] said thay looked at the stom with a shurder and mad sines to him that if thear was eny of them left behind thay wer dead and thar was know us for them



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to go. he stil coxt them and told them what he would give them. if thay would make the trial. thay started out in surch of them. it was day lit by this time on the 21st {1859/11/21} they found 2 of them and brought them in to the Hut senceles. after rubing them. and raping them in dear Skins thay finley came to. the other 2 the Natives found but it was to lat. for the Crows had all ready plucked Witneys Eies out. the other was a Colard man a Porteges. the Crows would hover around him but did not offer to teach him. this was quit a mystrey to the Natives as well as to our selfes. the Natives don eavery thing in thare power to help the suferers thay gave them the best thay had to eat. and kept them until such time as thay was removed. to the vessils. on the 20th {1859/11/20} wen it modarated. about the time mr K[Knowles] was tring to save the man on the ice. thare was a Cuknow crost the bay just to the North of the ship and landed up thinking that we might geat sum clu of the misin boats. we cleard awhay a boat and went to them. we found them to be a lot of Natives that belonged on the East sid of the Bay whare the ship lay. that had been helping tow them on the Night of the 19th {1859/11/19} it apeard by thare storey that thay left the whale at the same time the boats did. but  finding it emposable to gain thare seattlement wich was to windward of them. thay kept befor the wind befor dark and ran down the bay around Sand Point on the West side of Bay whare thay efected a safe landing and tid up for the night. and as thare was no settlement on that sid that thay could get to thay watched thare chance to get to thare own  settlement. wich turned up on the 20+.{1859/11/20} the captain brought off 4 of thes Natives with him in the boat. the rest of them traveld for the seattlement wich was about 3 miles distance. one of the fore that came on bord was a female about 18th. {1859/11/18}  this Esquermor [Eskimo] lady the Captain paid grat atention to. taken her down in the after cabin whare she took up her quarters for
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next 10 months. wich I shal hear after do sum acount of.

  I now give you a scatch of the ship on the Night of the 20th {1859/11/20} at 3 oclock P.M. it was about dusk. captain Lus of the Brig, was on board of us. when the gale recommenced, and being anchous to geat on board of his own vessel, he peposed the falering meatherd, to lower awhay aboat and slack her to the Brig by a line with a boatscrew in her in cace of an accedent. the Brig being right to leward it was quit easley don. if thay had onley maneged it right. but when captain Lus got on bord. the 4th Mate was in the Boat. thay let go the line and let go the Brig and trid to gain the ship with thare oars. this was emposable for the hol bay was feather whit, and thay soon went out of sit up the bay, but as luck would have it he landed safe on the same point whare a caknow[canoe] had landed a few hours befor. by the time thay got the boat taken car of it was dark as pitch. thay turned the boat botum up and got under her for the night, as it was dangres to travle in the dark on the sid of the Mountings in sutch a gale as it had got to be by that time. Just after dark thare came a gust a wind shaken our hous. that was over the ship to ribons. we let go a third Anchor. and thare we lay with the three Anchors not[?] a head and 250 fathoms of Chain in 20 fathoms of warter. and the best of holding grounds, with nothing aloft in the ship of top hamper. and Draging eavery now and then at that, one of the Natives when the gale was to it hith. ran out of the cabin and throwing himself flat on his face an hands began to sent up the ofel[?] holering and screeching that ever I herd in all my life. it lasted about ten minnuts. I afer wards found out that he was Praying for the wind to to stop bloing. thay said if it bloed that way for any leanth of time it would carry awhay thare houses. that was on the Point that land Locked



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the iner Bay. this Point is 50 feet above the leavel of the sea. the sea would come over this at times. wich apeard to put the Natives in a grat frit as thay had never been disturbed befor in thar time. it was emposable to sleep for the wind mad such a horable noies. the next morning the 4th Mate traveld to the seattelment. leving one man on the sid of the Mountain to die wich had got his feet froz during the night. it was mor moderate in the morning. thay reched the settelment five of them. one of them got a bad cut on his leag. his Name was John Gordon. it layed him up and he afterwards died throw the Scrape. when thay reached the huts the Natives took them in and took care of them til such times as thay could geat to the ship. on the afternoon of the 21st {1859/11/21} the gale sum what abated. we saw a man crawling on the sid of the Mounting in a brest of the ship. thar was a heavy breaker on the bech and dangers landing at the time. I started in after him taking 2 spar men in the boat to go with me after the man leving a ful boats crew in the Boat to keep her clear of the brakers. wen we got to the man he was senceles and could not stood it a grat while longer. we backed him to the boat. and got got on bord just in time for in les then an houre it was bloing a Tifoun[typhoon] again from the same old quarter. on the morning of the 22 {1859/11/22} it died awhay Curm[?] and a lit breezes sprung up from the North. a cuknow[canoe] cam up and brought the Fouth Mate and the remander of his boats crew. hove up 2 of the Anchors then I started. with the 3rd Mate up the Bay to look up som of the lost ones. the fouth Mate of the Brig was the one that we had got no clu of as yeat. we saw the whal at anchor. but did not truble him but kept in surch of the lost ones. thar was plentey of whales in the bay and had ben ever sence that we took the first whales. I saw a cuknow[canoe] strik a whale and get him the day I went up the bay. we falerd the bay around clost in shor in hops we might see sumthing of the boat on the bech.
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range of the mouth of the Bay. whare the brakers were the heavest. we herd a man holer. I went in as near as I dar go for the brakers. and hear was five cannackers [Kanakas] who had been thare in a cave sence the Night thay left the whale. being three nights and three dayes. I tried to geat them to walk about a quarter of a mile to a sand point that mad a kind of a brake warter whare thare was a safe landing for a boat. but thay wer all frose belo the nes and could not walk. I then put sum thing to eat in to a seal skin and bent it to another ful of wind atacht to a lin and started it in on the brakers. but the under too would not let it go no shor. I then Anchord the boat of shor a little wayes wached my chance. and sturnd in near enugh to heav the line a shor. wich they got. I hald out of the breakers. and bent the packs on and they hold them safe on shor. I sent the 3rd Mate after a caknow [canoe] thinking we might land with one beter then a boat as thay are mad of Wallrus[walrus] hid and not so apt to get stove as a boat. the wind breezed up strong a gain from the South. and the weather looked eany thing but promising and night was coming on a gain. I went in as near as I dar go for the brakers. and trid to presuade them to come to the boat on the lin. the boat steerer was wiling to to come but the rest would not under tak it. after coxing them til it was dark I then told the boat steerer to come. I got him in to the boat an left them. and started for the Brig with the Boat stearer. on my way I met the 2nd Mat of the brig with a caknow[canoe] and Natives bownd for the Cave. when thay got thare it was emposable to get with in haling distance of the Cave with Eather boat or caknow[canoe].thay left them and had a tugh job to reach the first seattlement themselfs. I cared the boat stearer to the Brig, his feet was badley frozing. we learnt from him. that when thay saw thay could not gain the Brig, thay kept befor the wind. calculating to go to leward of a sand point that mad off into the Bay. it being dark as
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the first thing thay knowed thay was chock into the brakers on the weather sid of the Point. and nothing to save them from going on shor whare thay was. he said the boat ran in on top of the sea right sid up and landed them hi and dri. and thay all Jumped out all safe. when the next sea ran in thay had Just time to get clear of the boat when she was smashed in to stones. and no part of that boat was ever found afterwards, thay all travled along shor for the nearest settelment wich was about 15th mils. until thay come to the Cave. thay stoped in the Cave all of them, the first night. then start the next day on thar Jurney. but the crew wich wer all Cannackers[Kanakas] had not got far from the Cave when thay chose to go back. the 4th Mat kept on and reached the Huts Just befor Mr. K. [Knowles] got there. When I got on board I found Mr K.[Knowles] had got back. he and the rest of the boats crew. except the courled man that was frozen on thare Jurney around the head of the bay. On the 23rd {1859/11/23} it blou as hard as ever again. let go the other anckors. managed to lay it out after dragen a quarter of a mile. on the morning of the 24th {1859/11/24} died away. and a lit breezes sprung up from the North. got the rest of the men out of the Cave. the first time thay trid to land with the Caknew[canoe]. the baker caught her and. smashed her frame work all to [??]. leving 8 Natives on the beach makeing 11 on the bech to be got off. Thay got them all off during the day for it got sumwhat smuther along about noon. we got eavery one on bord on the 24th.{1859/11/24} hove up 2 of the Anchors. and cumenced feting the boats for a nother trial of it. we started down the Bay on the 25th.{1859/11/25} it was as good weather as could be exped for the countrey that we was in. it was coald. for the Themometer stood at 12 degres belo Zero. and the ice was coviring the bay fast. when we started myself and 3rd mate in compney. up the bay we saw no whales so we kept on up the bay looking for the dead whale that we saw anchord all right
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miles up the bay from the ship. We fel in with whales I went on and struck. the whale started quick, and as the line was froze saled in to the tub. sumthing I was not on the look out for as the line had been clost to the stove all night befor we started. when the lin brought up to the frozing lin the whale heading one way and the boat the other she capsizeesd in a instance. the boat stearer cut the lin at the same time but it was to lat. over bord we all went. we wer all drest in Nativ Custom as it was so coald that our on clos wer but little acount. we found it rather difacult work to handle our selfs in that coald warter all mufled up in furs. we maneged to get on the boat and ors whare we kept a flot until the 2nt Mat of the Brig got to us. as he was nearer then our 3rd Mat when the boat capsized. he was Just returning from the seattlement up the bay and was within a half mile. and saw the hol preformence he picked us up. befor the 3rd Mat got to us. Just as he got to us the whale come up clost to the boat that lay boutum up with in a ships leanth of him. he layed like a log. I haled him and told him to pul up and give him a lance. he throw fear of an accedent did not want to go. we started for the ship leving him to featch the boat and craft. we had 4 miles to go. eavery man of us wet thow. and the furs froz stif on us wich was not a veary agreable harness. as soon as we got on board we cut the close off of us and mufled up warm and soon got ourselfs to life again. we lowerd away another boat boat to cut the whale of as he was going out the Bay. he got clear. the boats all returnd to the ship. and we resolved to whale it as the Natives wer whaling with Short lines with seal skin paks atached to them. the captain of the Brig pad the Natives for the canow[canoe] and thar services with rum and we had to seat up all night to keep pece among them as thay wer having a Joley Drunk, it was veary cold in the Night with a freash breezes from the North wich brought the ice from the head of the Bay and jamed it in
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and the Point at the Mouth of the bay. we saw the whale that we had anchord drift out of the bay and could not get to him. on the morning of the 26th {1859/11/26} at daylit the bay was all froz over, leving the shap of the wave. as thar was a strong breeze all Night from the North. the Natives came on board on the Ice and sum of our chaps went to the Brig on the Ice. we saw plentey of whales out in clear warter but could not get to them. as the ice was not strong enugh to carey the boats over to the clear water. so we had to content ourselfs with looking at them all that day. we saw the 2 paks that the Mat and boat Stearer trid to geat a shor with up the bay we went to them. we found sum of thar close. but could not find thar bodayes. sent 2 men up the bay and Bured the 2 men that froz to death on thar Jurney on the Night of the 21st

{1859/11/21} on the 27th {1859/11/27} the ice was strong enugh to take the boats over wich sum of us preposed to do. but captain S. [Simmons] objected to it. so we stood and looked at them. for sum time when he came along and give orders to start the Try-works and boyle out the frozing bluber of the whal that we had stowed away in the bluber rom wich would of kept til spring. the whales soon disapeard after we started the fiers. for the wind was just right to give them a good smoking. Captain S.[Simmons] by this time paid but veary little atention to what was going on aboard ship. except on the after cabin whare he apeard to tak quit an entris. we pumped all the wart out of the cask in the holed to keep it from freezing up. we got throw boyling it bowed heavey from the North for three dayes. brok the ice all up and packed it up to the south of us. wich left it all clear of ice again up the bay from us it blod so hard on the Night of the 30th {1859/11/30} that we draged with three anchors down until we cam to the eadge of the ice. whare we layed and thumped til morning. the ice was quit salord being from 6 to 8 inches thick. on the morning of the first of December. {1859/12/01} we had pleasant weather with freash breezes from the North. but not strong 



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enough to keep the bay from freezing over. for the Natives came of in les than 3 hours after the gale went down. we saw plentey of whales but could not get to them for ice. sum of the brigs men ran away but thay found thar way back again when thay got hungrey. on the morning of the 2nt of Dec {1859/12/02} we took 2 boats on shor to the Point out to the mouth of the bay. we draged them over the ice on a Sledg wich we had mad for that purpirs. another gale came on from the North and on the 3rd,{1859/12/03} the ice was all brok up again. on the 4th {1859/12/04} the bay froz over again bloing a gail at the same time. wich made rather a ruf senerey of it til the snow leaveled it off. the ice did not start again around the ship but encrest its stranth eavery day. on the 5th {1859/12/05} it was stil bloing freash from the North we could see clear water on the opezet sid of the bay and plentey of whales in it but could not get to them. 2 of the men that was taken out of Cave Died and was Bured today. and the man that came of on the lin is expeced to lose his feet. as thay wer badley frozing. on the 6th {1859/12/06} we did not try to get to the whales. eavery bodey by this tim was about scard to death. Captain S. [Simmons] was then then eanyone. but when he saw the Natives catch one. it mad him quit fishey, and on the morning of the 7th {1859/12/07} we went in to the Point and lanched the boats. itt was bloing freash from the North and the ice was making and braking to the North of the boats wich was coming out the bay with the wind at the rat of 4 miles an hour. when we we got out in to the middle of the outer bay we found that we had eather got to put back to the Point or go to sea with the ice. the theMometer stood at 14 Deg belo Zero that day. we got back to the point + haled the boats up and gave it up. the Natives told us that thare was no eus when the ice cam down so fast as it was coming at the tim. thay would not go out them selfs on such a day. we went on board -



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Dec th 8th {1859/12/08} bloing a gale from the N. W. no clear water in sit from the ship. the ice around the ship 3 to 4 feet thick. Themometer 14 Deg. belo Zero. Dec the 9th {1859/12/09} thare was a strek of clear water in the mouth of the bay gust in sit of the point. saw a number of whales along the Eadge of the ice. thes whales was the last of them from the North. a defrent spechey from the old fashon whale comenly sin in the sumer time in the Artic[Arctic]. thay go North in Febarey and March. and dont come south until December. thay are a smal whale. about 25. to 40 barells. the large whales had all got by. and gone south. thay stay North as long as they can brake the ice with thar backs. and then flet south as the weather growes coald. it was bitter coald that morning the Themomerter stood 14 Deg belo Zero. I went out with a Bum Gun to the Eadge of the ice and Bumd one of thes small whales. he turned up and drifted on to the Point. that being to leward. of whare I shot him it was bloing strong from the North. we struck him from the Point. and he spouted a number of times after he grounded. one of our men fros his face and hands coming from the ship to the Point. it was emposable for a whit man to look to windward. it fros quit a number of the mens fingers and faces. the Natives helpet us to to get the bluber off for the carkes. an we. helpet them rather. as thay don all the cuting. and we draged the bluber up on the bech. whare it lay til next day as it was to coald to under take to get it to the ship in the night. after the bluber was all off the Natives cut the carkes up and divided it in amung them selfs. saving eavery particle of it. Mr K.[Knowles] got weat when we first began to strip the whale. and was fost to go on board to shift his close. when the whale was about half cut in. I started to go on board to get sumthing to chear the men that was stil at work at the whale. as thare was but few of them left by this tim. as thay kept  droping off and going to the ship with thare Faces and fingers
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that we would soon make a finish of the whale. he told me he had not got it to spar. this rather took me aback as I had seen the Natives come out of the after cabin drunk day after day. he told me I had beater go on board with the men let the whale go. that it was to cold to under take to whale it. I had ben out on the ice and Point ever sence morning. and told him, that I could stand it til the whale was cut in. and what men thare was on shor was wiling to stop with me. he see I did not want to give the whale up. he said he would go on bord and send a keg of hot coffee ashor to the men the ship was a good half mile from the Point. so much for his good sence. he went on board but he did not send the coffee. after we got the whale all up on the bech we went on board. it was coald thare is no mistacke about that and we should never of got the whale cut in with out the help of the Natives. Dec th 10th {1859/12/10} with the help of the Natives we got the bluber all to the ship. head and all. we brought it on sleds. we put it in the bluber rom head and all thar to stop until spring. as it was hard as a stone. this was the last of our whaling. the outer bay fros over for the last time as far off shor as we could see. thare was no clear warter. the natives ust to bring any quanetey of clames of to the ship and coad fish. the clams washed up on the point during the Souther. the cod fish thay picked up of the heads[?] aflot. whare they had been fros. we layed in a good sock of them as thay wer not apt to spile. the Natives or of and on all the time, sum on fot and sum on Slayes dron by dogs. thay suplid us with the same kind of close as thay wor themselves wich we could not got along with out them. we pad them for them with calaco wich thay apeard to take quit a fancey to. we housed the ship over again with old sails to keep the [???] off deck. the Natives would bring us a dear now and then. all we had to d was keep our selfs comfortable wich we managed to do for a wile. we ust to run ashor to the huts. and a bord the
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December after it got to be good Slaying the Natives would come 200 miles to look at the ship. after thay got the newes. that the vessels wer in the bay thare was from 50. to 2 and 300 of them about the ship eavery day. and the Natives that lived in bay would be on board eaver day all winter. in the worst of weather, we had to get all our water from a pond on the point in the shap of ice. and cart it off on the Sled, this was a Job for all hands about eavery other day, an a good Job to for it ust to keep them in Excercise, nothing werth of not hapend in Jenary {1860/01/00} we had the wind mostly from the North. the snow was veary fine and it would snow for 3 or 4 dayes to raze a foot of snow. we was fost to take down the house over the ship to save the sail as the wind ust to make offley work with them sum times. after the sails was taken down and we had a snow stom. we would muster all hands and clear the decks in a few minutes. we had onley 2 men layed up at this time. they wer both in a veary bad state. 



As we had seen a concederable of the Natives by this time I wil give sum lettle acount of them for a change. in the first place thay are the most harmles set I ever saw in my life. thay dont Difer a gradel in disperzision. I dont think anyone could dow any thing bad Enugh to one of them to have them hold a groge a gainst them. thay are grat buggars when thay com on bord of a ship. that is Easley acounted for tho, as thare is nothing in thar on contrey to speak of such as thay see when thay com on board of ships. thay see tols and se a grat many litle things that thay could put to a good us if thay only had them. and thay have asked for them so many times and ben refusd that. thay dont make no bons of steeling them when thay get a sit. thay might have a grat meney usfull artacles if the Trades would bring them up to them for trad enstad of Rum wich thay gennelley bring. thay are grat lovers of rum. and save all thar whale bon. and wallrus teeth that thay catch during the winter. until spring. thay make grat caleurbation on having one grand drunk when the trader heves in sight. wich lasts them about a week. thay bight



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fight and bang one another up shamfuley and sum time kil on a nother. and quit often die from the efects of the por licker wich thay get from the traders. thay buld thar houses on points of low land in the bayes. thos that live on the sea shor. and are tarmed whaleman. as thay suply the natives in the intearer with eaveything that thay take from the sea. the in landers are tarmed Deare men as thay get thare living hunting and fishing for samon an trout. and the most of them have a Herd of deare. and the deare man suply the longshor man with Deare Skins. the dare men allwayes put up thare huts on low leavel land. by having thare houses in such places. thay are seldom trubled with dep snow around thare seattlements. for the snow stoms is generaley acompaned with strong winds. and thay carey the snow to the sides of the mountings whare it drifts up as hi as a 100 feet sum times. leving the low land bare. it is on thes planes whare thay keep thare Deare in the winter. thare Huts are framed veary lit and shaped like a surkes[circus] tent. thay fasting all thare work with whalebon and sinews. after the frame work is up it is cuved veary nettley with Tand wallruses hides. wich is wind and water profe. in the sumer time. if thare is mor than one famley in the house each one has a seprate bed room Just large enugh for them all to sto awhay in. this rom is mad of deare skins are tit and is veary warm. in the winter thay line the house with deare skins. and have thare sleeping apartments all in one. whare thay cook eat sleep and eavery thing togeather. this is kept warm with oil lamps. the lampes is a earthen dish 2 to 3 inches deep and squar vearying in size. thay are kept ful of oil, and a kind of a moss[?] that thay get off of the rocks on the sid of the Mountings thay lay on the Eadge of the lamp. this anncers[?] for a week. thay throw out a gradel of heat. over thes lampes thay do thare cooking. when thay have got plentey to Eat thay are apearentley the happeyest beings on the face of the Earth. thay trust to luck a
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thay genraley lay in thare winter stock in the Fall sum times thay have bad weather and dont get a sufishent quanety to keep them throw the winter and at such times thay suffer gratley and thay die off for the want of food. this winter thay negglected laying in thar winter stock by hanging around the ship. wich brought them to want befor spring. I have known them not to have nothing to Eat for a week to a time except what thay dig up out off the snow on the beach. such as clames and Seewed that had washed up in the fall. at such times thay would laber around the ship 50 or a 100 of them to a time baging for sumthing to Eat. thay cared off a gradel of provsion during the first part of the winter. befor the men wer put on aloucuce[?], wich brought us short befor spring. I wil discribe thar dres as near as I can. the men whare thare pants a tite fet to thare leags coming as hi as thear heeps and as low as thare ankles. these are mostley made of seal skins. or Deare skins. thare coats are made of the Deares Skins veary lous and com Just belo the hip. and garted in around the wast with a belt. thay have a hood atached to the coaler for winter whare. in the winter thay whare tow of thes coats. one have sid in and the other have sid out, then thay have a frock made from the guts of a whale. wich is water prof. this thay put on over all whan thay go out in stommey weather. it keeps them deare skins dri and is of grat servis to them. thare stockins is mad of deare skin. thare boots is genreley made of seal skin and are water prof. the Deare men sum times have them made of dear skins with Seal skin souls for winter whare. the womane whare a kind of a blomer rig. thare briches comes from thare nes up to thare neck with sleves in them. than thay whare a frock over them cuming down as low as Just above the kne. this complets thare rig. thay are veary frindley to one another thay keep grat run of thare relatives. wich is no small Job as som of them as from 3 to 4 wifes thay uesd thare wifes veary well about the bay and to the
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 upon the men. but thay seldom but them, wich is often the case to the North. thay dont breed veary fast. and thay seuckel thare children until thay are 6 and 7 years old. this is I supose on the acount of thare food. thay live prnclebey on the whale and seal wallruse and Ducks. thay onley half cook thare food and quit often eat it raw. thay pas thare time hunting and fishing in the sumer time. in the middle of winter for about 3 months thare is no living thing to be seen except the Crow he stops the hol year around. but most evary thing gits south of the bay by the latter part of December. the seal he hangs around most all winter. but thay haf to travel of shor from 8 to 10 miles on the ice to get to them. and quit often go day after day with out cuccess. sum times thay catch them with saines. but the most of them go out with nothing but a Harpon this is riged on the same princable of a whalemans. it is quit a sit to see a 100 Natives start out after seal. with a coil of line made up veary net around thare neck. with thare harpon in one hand in one hand and a three leaged stool under the other arm. all in single file going at a doogs trot. when thay get out whare the ice makes and brakes thay go out as far as thay dare go on the thin ice. thay then punch a hold throw the ice. and about a inch big then thay seat down on thare stoll in a stude all ready to fasten to the seal if he should hapen to put is nose up to thare hold to geat his breath. in the sumer time thay trap [???] in sains on the beach and fasten to them out of the caknowes[canoes]. when thare is no sealing to be don thay travel from one settelment to the other visiting thare frinds. but this winter thay have past a gradel of thare time about the ship. thay have a grat varitey of a musements. thay can all mimick eavery living thing that coms on the coast. and the first thing thay lern thare children is to Mimmick Eavery thing and to bage. thay have a sort of a tamberrun for musick the onley enstrement of musick I eaver saw them us thay beat on this
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and get as excited over it as any of our sporten men at home. thin thay run foot races old an yong. I have seen them run from five to ten miles 50 of them in the race. thay dont run with veary grat sped but keep one gat all the time and the one that holds out the longist is the best fello. when thay resal thay tread out a ring in the snow Just large enugh so the outsiders can all get a sit and not enter fear with the raslers in the ring. thay bring the smalest child thare is around and the one that gets throd leves and the one that throws him keeps the ring and tries again until he is throwed. and so thay go on the best felo keeping the ring. when the men get at it thare is grat sport. the women thay take a hand in thes sports by them selfs. thay are veary superstisers and have a grat meney oad sines and sayings. wich I shal heare after give sum acount of. if a young man takes a liken to a girl he has got to cort her parents. and make them preasants such seal or deare or eany thing of that kind. and when he has given enugh to her parents to sates-fi them he takes her she belongs to him. I wil now give a smal sceatsch of one of the Plover Bay belyes[?] who had three lovers. when we came to stop heare she had ben corted and about paid for by one of the Natives. Mr Davis our rattle-headed fourth Mate he made love to her. and she apeard to return the love. but he not knoing the fashen of the contry. was giving her all the preasances. after he had mad her all the preasances he could give her all his thread needles comes and a good part of his close he whent to Captain S.[Simmons] for mor He gave him a seares talking to asking him if he want a shamed of himself. and if he want a shamed of him. and told him if he had no mor respect for himself than to fall in love with one of thos lousey Squrs. that he could have his choice to drop her aquantence or move out of the cabin forward amung the men. this kind of checked Mr. D.[Davis]. he partley gave up his set[?]. not long after this Penanear (her name) had another Lover.
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ney after the leacter that he had given Mr. D.[Davis]. he took the fashon of the countrey for it. making preasants to her Farther and Mother. and her Native lover who apeard loath to give her up. he mad them preasance enough to satisfi all parteyes. and Pinanere took up her winter quarters with him in the after cabin and she was a Mother in the sping of a little girl. wich was voycsd all around amung the natives that Captain S [Simmons] was the farther of, and the old saying is what eaver bodey sayes must be tru. and as Pinan sayes so her self, it must be tru. so much for our church Member, he ust to heat the after cabin with the Natives lampes. and when he had the cabin ful of lamp smok and theos lousey Squers he apeard to be perfectley happy. Mr K.[Knowles] got disgusted with his carings on. and fleted[?] into the Forward cabin. leving him alon. Native companions lice and lamp Smok togeather. he ust to get his mels in the forward cabin. and the Steward ust to Carey Pinanes grub to the after cabin reagular eavery mel. and quit often thare was tow of them to fed. as thar was a nother Squaw that ust to com and stay with him three weeks at a time. all of Pinanes realitives sum 6 or 8 of them ust to be Stowed awhay in the after cabin in the day time all winter. and thare ust to be a grat quannety of grub pust down thare. all the first and middle part of the winter. until we was brought on Short alowenc, he did not apear to take any entres in the ship or what was going on. Mr K.[Knowles] and I had a talk about the grub that was carid off dayle by the Natives. and we then figured up what grub we had left and we found it was going to brng us short sum three months befor Spring. in which cace we Should haf to of left the ship and go a beaging amung the Natives. Mr K.[Knowles] went to the captain and told him about thes things. all he had to say was that he did not lik to put the men on alowance. and he did not. which is easley acounted for as he though it would not do as the whole ships comppnay was knowing of his
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Shortley after Mr K.[Knowles] spok to him he was taken sick. and as the captain took no notice what was going on what eaver. I called the men on deck and told them if thay let the Natives carey off thare bread as thay had don thay would haf to change thare diert befor spring an live as the Natives lived. thay all told me that thay would rather go on an alowence. then Each man could take care of his on alowence. I went to the capain and told him what I thought about on the subject and he told me as he told Mr K[Knowles] that he did not want to put the men on alowence. I then told him that the men all wanted to go on alowence.

he then mad up a pitefull face and began to tel me how much he was worth and how mch he had in the ship. and he had stoped hear to make or brake. he kep on a string of this kind. half cring. until I put him in mind of what. we had comenced our convasaion about. I told him thare was not so much provisions in the ship as he though thare was by one therd which he found to be so when we came to overhall, he then sayde we might put the men on alounce if we wanted to. I then took this Job in hand and gave each man his allwence daley. we had to find the brig in Provisions and thay was having as much as thay wanted to eat, and trading it with Natives as thay pleased. while our men wer on short alowence which coursed our men to murmur. Mr K.[Knowles] told the capt of this. and he said he could not helpe it. and as he never sayed any thing about it to Captain Lus we told the Brigs officers, and it soon got to captain Lus and he put his men on alowence Just in time. at the later part of the winter we wer forst to go on short alowence in the Cabin. this mead captain S.[Simmons] open his eyes. the squaws had to go on short [???] to. as thay seldom got any thing to eat on board after that, for about 2 weeks when we first frose in the capt paid grat atenion to the 2 men that wer layed up he would go and dres thare wonds himself. but when sum mor of the men wer layed up. and wer growenen and crying with pain. he gave it up to Mr K.[Knowles] as he had not check enugh to go near them. as he had never spok a word to them about stoping hear. 



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Mr. K. [Knowles] don eaver thing in his power for the sick. Febary the 5th {1860/02/05} John Gorden died. the man that cut his leag. wlayed him out and Bured him and put up a head bord to his grave. Captain S [Simmons] had in it he did not evin go to the funreal. the Forcarsel was veary damp and the ice would freezes thare bed close fast to the sid of the ship. thay kept giving up one at a time. and on the 21st {1860/02/21} thare was 7 of them layed up with heavey colds. Mr K. [Knowles] told the captain if they did not have sumthing to keep the Forcastle dry besides the cookes stove that thay would all be layed up befor spring. he gave them a sove out of the after cabin which had been laying idle for sum time. this made them mor comfortable until we got short of wood. for we got on alowence of that befor Spring. we onley had tow mels a day. and kept fier Just long enugh in the day time to cook them with. in March we had veary suding changes in the weather the Thee Mometer varing from 40 Degres in 24 hours. I have seen her go from 10 Deg above the freezing poynt down to 24 belo Zero. in march {1860/03/00} thare was any quarnety of cod fish in the bay. we ust to cut holes in the ice and Gig them hand over fist. thay was quit small not over 6 inches long. but thay was veary good Eating. on the 9th {1860/03/09} we had a gale from the south and rain. Themometer above the Freezing poynt. on the 10th {1860/03/10} bloing a gale from the North. Themometer down to Zero. by this time we had 6 men down with the Scurvey. the Brigs men wer ding off with it fast. she had 12 of her crew die. thay wer the men that wer in the Boats last fall in that gale. the man that came off on the line. had to have his leg cut off. Mr K. [Knowles] preformed the operation. he stood it well and would of lived if Scurver had not careid him off. in the Spring. the Brig losing so meney men with the scurvey put eavery bodey in a frit. our captain was as Scared as anyone. Mr K. [Knowles] wated an tended on the sick and tryed to encurage them. I ust
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of the Sick ust to keep the well ones in bad sperets. the captain never whent near them. but he got to putting grat confedenc in Captain Lus. and apearentley had no mind of his own. it was for the want of a dry place to Sleep. and the right kind of food that bought the Scurver[scurvy] upon the men. but captain Lus tels him that it is for the want of exizes that layes them up. he consoles himself with that. and tells Mr K.[Knowles] that He had ought to see that thay are excezed. this is what I should call puting on a cheek. after takeing the responcablety on his on Shoulders to keep the men hear without ever saying a word to them. about stoping hear. he cant look a man in the face himself. and has not all winter, about the 20th March {1860/03/20} I got lonsom. and as eaverybodey was down harted. I thought I would change the seen so I took my Boat Steerer and started on Jurney to the North. with the Natives on dogs Slayes it was a fine day when we started but could after the sun went down the Themommeter was 24 Deg blo Zero. we went to the next bay the first day. and it came on a snow Storm and we had to stop thare for 2 dayes. we then start and feached up at a place called Indin Point [Indian Point] in the Mouth of the Straits to the Artic[Arctic]. I left the Boat Steerer heare and wint on to the Next Settlement in to the North in Bearin Straits[Bering Straits]. when I reached hear I had com over 100 miles sum of the whay along shor on the ice. and part of the whay in land. it is astonishing how thes dogs wil travil. thay will go from 50 to 75 miles a day. day after day. thay can bet hors travling all to peces. we had onley six dogs hiched to each Slay. and tow men on each one of them and I should liked to have seen a good smart hors kept in sit of us. but the grates sport of all was coming over the mountains. when the hil is so steep that the dogs cant keep ahead of the slay thay put half on each sid of the slay and thay claw in to the Snow to hold the Slay back and stop the speed of it. thay have a nother
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Each one of thes. pressing them into the snow stops the headwhay a concedrible. and slowes the snow up at a fine rate. whare ever we Stop at a Settlement the Natives would all hover around us to get a sit at us. we saw a number of Deer Slayes wich was quit a sit to see them. sum of them half tame and porley brok in. the Slay saging from sid to sid and the driver. layin out all his stranth trying to keep them on the right cours. I shall haftow give sum acount of my gyed he was a noble looking felow rezemblen our American Iindin and spok much beatter Eanglesh then any of the rest of the Natives. most eavery plan that we would pass we would see a heard of deer. and a Native with his gogs standing wach over them. I asked Nowtakin, my guyed fore that was his Name if the man had to wach them all the time. he sad yes, stand watch and watch all the same as board the ship. I asked what for. he Staded awhile trying to think of the Name of the wollf. after awhile he gave it up and Sayes to me long time I know speak Eangleash me forget. Spose the man no watch, harm by contrery dog com and catch him. mening the wollf. one night I thought I would get a good nights rest after travling all day. I turnd in quit erly, but befor I got to sleep my old friend Notakey comes to me Saying what for your make lonsome what for you no tell me stowreyes. I told him I did not know any Stowerys: yes you know plentey. you tell me about Adam and Eve. and Nor and the Big ship. tim plentey warter com. I asked him who told him about it. and he sayed Jack, meaning a man that was rect and stoped with him one winter. when I saw he was posted[?] in Screpture I asked him to tell me about it and I was astoneshed to heare him explain his storey as he cald it. wich was a much better acount then I could have given myself. while I was stopping at Indian Point the Ducks was flying over the Point to the North in grat qunatayes. my old frend lent me a Fouling pece and I went out on the Ice with the Natives to take my chance with them,



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it is grat sport to see them catch ducks. the morning I went out, thare was betwen 2 and 300 Natives went out with me after ducks. we went out on the ice amung the Floting Burgs whare the Natives all squat down whating for the game. thay have a kind of Sting that thay slay them with it is riged sumwhat like a Bag lanyard with from Eaght to ten tales to it eache tale having a pece of ivery atached whaying about an ounce in the shap of a Eage. thay watch thare chance. and when thare is a flock coming over about right. thay let fly this enstrement of wore witch gos as strat as a di til it gets in amung the Ducks then it spreads tangleying around the wings and necks of the Ducks brenging them down to the ice by the run[?] sum times as meney as foure at a time. I pelted awhay both barells of my gun as fast as I could lod and fire. but thay beat me all holer. I shot as meney as I could carey then I sent and watched them wich was grat sport for thay was falling with sum ones sling eavery moment. I sayed about aweek on Indian Point. and had as good a time as could be expected. and as Aprell was about setting and the dayes geting long thare was sum talk of comencing on the ship to fetter up for the Artic[Arctic] Season. I started for that purpos. I quit often made short Jurneyes of tow or three dayes but this tramp I was gorn about 10 dayes. when I was coming along the cost on my way back to the ship I found the Natives larnching thare caknowes[canoes]. thare was plentey of clear warter 6 or 8 miles off shor and thay sayed the small whales had made there apearence bownd North and thay was geting there caknowes [canoes] out to go in chace. we had fine weather all throw Aprel thoring[?] most eavery day but stil veary coald during the night. about the 18th {1860/04/18} the Small whale that we caught in the fall thought out and we boyled it out. and sum other bluber that the captain had bought during the winter for the wee things that he pecked up about the Ship. with the help of sum tobacker,[?] I bleve what trading he don
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this he bought mostley with tobacker witch he cald his owne. but if a Native hapened to want anything elce such as toler[?] a lance or any thing of that kind he got it and the Bon was all put togeather. all counted as the Captains Bone. he careed on a pretey good busness in this whay during the winter. thare has been quit a number of whales seen out sid of the heads 8 miles from the ship and the Natives have caught 4 or 5 of them. and I think if we had been feted and had oure men all well this spring we should have stood a site to have got one or tow. we had sum snow in May the 5th of May {1860/05/05} we cut around the ship and trimed her up the ice was from 7 to 9 feet. it took us three dayes to cut her out. after we got her cut out, we had veary pleasant weather and we made grat progres feting the ship up wich was no small Job for eavery thing was in a bad state. we had her all tan [?]tom[?] by the later part of may. one morning about this time the watch gave me a call and told me thare was tow poler Bares going out the bay past the ship. I took my Boum gun and went in chace when I crost the Point at the Mouth of the Bay the Natives had all ready started. when I cought up with them thay had the Bares ringed and was closing on them and had one of them wonded I got theire Just in time to knock the outher with a ball from my Bum gun. it was sport to see the Natives all Excited with thare speares and guns all loling[?] and shaking thare armes as thay closed on them. but after thay was dead then thay had a grat mernuver to go throw. for it apeard thes bears was one of thare gods that thay woshoped. thay draged them a little whay from wheare thay fel. them lashed a speare acrost one of thare throts and one of the old men got down on his hands and nes and began to ask the Beare all sorts of qustions about thare famley afaires and about the ship. an the beare anserd as folers. if it was yes the old felow would apearntley left the head with all Eas. but if it was know he apeard to strain eavery musle and the head would
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Secrets the old men asked the Bare for them. I wanted to try the spear but thay would not let me but thay alowed me to ask as meney questiones as I pleased. witch I did. after this was over thay devided the Bares amung the croud and ofered me my Shar. I took a small pce Just to show them on the Point and on board the Ship that we had got them. we had been veary short of wood for the last 2 months Aprel and May- we onley had 2 mels a day and kept a feire Just long Enugh to cook that. by the first of Jun we had burnd up eavery thing in the shape of wood that we could spar and had comenced carting of whale Bones from the bech witch made quit a firen mixt up with wood and sutch stuf as we could scrap up about the ship. by the first of June {1860/06/01} thare was ten men down with the Scurvey and mor complaineng. Captain S.[Simmons] never went near them. Mr K. [Knowles] paid eavery atention to them. and when it was fine weather he would have them brought up to take the are. at sutch times when thay wer morning and growning about Deckes he would Eather go to the hut on the Point and pas the day with his Harlot, or go of and dig Roots witch he ust to think was doing them a grat faver. the same ruts he would be all day geting he might bought for a three sent plug of tobacker. from the Natives. he did not apear to take any entrest what ever about what was going on bord the ship. he apeard to let Mr K. [Knowles] have charge altogeather and carey on the werk to sut himself. Just befor the vessles hove in Sit off the Bay he made Mr K.[Knowles] a preasent of a box of cegars and one of Tobacker, he had begun to come to his sences a lettle by this time. and he apeard to think it quit neseery that his carings on should be kept a Secret. and I beleve he was foolesh enugh to think that Mr K.[Knowles] was the onley one in the Ship that know anything about his carings on. for during the season after we had gamed with quit a Number of ships he told mr K.[Knowles] he though veary Strange how it had luked out about his keeping the
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the men kept droping off dayly. the Natives ust to bring us any quanetay of Ruts. thes apeard to help the men sum. we had sum Preserved mets but the captain was veary loth to ues them. Mr K.[Knowles] after a while got him to have sum of them cooked. we ust to have tow cans a day for the cabin and the Sick got thare share of that. one day the captain orderd sum Clames. and sum String bens the stuard asked him how he would have them cooked he says it did not make any deference it was all fresh and he might cook it all up to geather. so we had a Clam Chowder with string beans in it. which was a great mes. we had the ship all readey by the first of June all but bending the sails, but the ice looked Just a ferm as eaver and as fare off shor as the heads to the outer bay. when the ice did go it went all at once. about the 10th {1860/06/10} the Ice was cuverd all over with about a fot of warter. and it began to brake off of the outer Eadge fast. June the 15th {1860/06/15} we wer all busey mending sails when a Native cam from shor and reported ships in the outer bay. we Jumped aloft and shor enugh heare thay was five of them heal up. we started in to the Point a lot of us. we helped the Natives get their caknowes[canoes] readey, and put them on to dog Says, and them we started for the Eadge of the Ice. whare we larnched oure caknowes[canoes] and was not a grat while befor we wer on board of the Ship out sid, we staid out sid amung the defrent vessels all night. Capt Lus. CS. [Simmons] and myself. we got quit a lot of recruts from the defrent ships and thay wer all veary kind to us giveing us all thay could spar and then helpen us get it to the ship wich was quit a Job. for it was about 4 miles from the Eadge of the ice to the ship and a mightey hard road to travel, as the ice was about a foot thick with Soush. I was up with what men that was able to lend a hand over 50 hours. geting the recruts to the ship. at this time we had about 17 men layed up with the Scurvey. the 2 captains arrived with the last lod wich was
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them selfs and cam near quareling befor all hands about deviding the Provions wich thay agred upon at the first beginen of the game. after we had layed in a pretey good stock. makeing us out as well recruted as the best of the fleet and all for nothing. for the captains would not listen to being paid for them. Captain S. [Simmons] told Mr K[Knowles] that he thought the owners ought to pay for them. and that thay should for he did not ship to bage or recrute the ship for them. weather he eaver made any charge of thes things is mor than I can say, along from the 15th {1860/06/15} to the 25th of June {1860/06/25} their was from 10 to 15 ships out sid the Point all the time about the 25th {1860/06/25} the Ice brok up in to the Point then we got a lot of Flower and Bread and small stores with sum wood to cook it with. thes we wer gratley in ned of as we wer on the las cask of Floure and Bread when the Ships hove in Sit. and there was nothing in the Shap of a small stor in the Ship. nor would there have been a stor of any kind if it had not been for the short alowence that we had been on for the last three mounths, the ice brok up as far as the Point with in a half a mile of us. it was no use of thinking of trying to get out. so after we got all our recruts we ust to content our selfs. with going out in our Boats and having a Game now and then. to pas awhay the time, the crewes from the vesles out sid ust to com up quit often to take a look at our winter quarters, about the 8th {1860/07/08} or 9th of July {1860/07/09} the ice was nearly all broken up. Mr K. and myself. being anchours to get out we took the men out on the ice and worked hard for tow dayes. with ice Sawrs, made from ion plates that came off of the cominings of the hatchwhays and with spades. and cut awhay the ice a head of the ship. Captain S.[Simmons] did not apear to be in any hurey, for after we had worked and got the ice all clear he did not want to go. and told Mr. K.[Knowles] that he did not care about geting out Just yet, as we had been laying
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July the 11th {1860/07/11} we made sail and stood out of our winter quarters. but did not go far we Anchord in the outer bay. and layed until the 13th {1860/07/13} we then mad sail and started for Port Clarence to get wood. with the help of the vegatables that we got from the ships. our men wer recuvering fast and we all of them on dutey again but 4 or 5 of them, in the long face that captain S.[Simmons] had on wen we first left home was out of any tender feelings that he had towardes his fahmley. he must of had a duble regard for the frinds that he leves behind him in Plover Bay. for his face was much longer then when he left New Bedford. and he was a much sicker looking Child. but on this ocation he did not take to the Bible as befor. but he took to the Bottle. and he managed to keep about half shot about all the time, and quit often he would get off all togeather. and at sutch times he would act veary cuning and try hard to apear sober when it was emposeble for him to keep his feet. he lernt this bad habet of drounding Sorer of Capt. L.[Lus] during the winter. and a concedreable rascealetey as well as meannest along with it, but he was still a coward.



July the 16th {1860/07/16} we Anchored in Port Clarence and comenced geting off wood. it came onto a blo from the South. and we let go a secont Anchor. on the 18th {1860/07/18} it blod a heavey gale from the South, and as [??] out in the Mouth of the Harbor thier was quit a sea raged. the ship began to Drag. captain S[Simmons] got Scared as he allwayes dos when thaire is any danger near, he came along and Said to me that we was going a shor and that thaire was no ues of trying save any thing but our lives. the bech was from tow to three miles off. I told him I did not think that we would be doing right to let the Ship go ashor. with ground tackling Enugh in the ship to hall her under water besides all that all owr top hamper was aloft, and no move had been made to get any of it down. he began to cry befor the holl ships compnay. and  told me if I could dew any thing that would save her that I might. go a head and do it. but he thought theire was no use. I went at work geting our spair anchors and such



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ground tackling as we had that want in ues. which I was at work at this he condisended to ask Mr K.[Knowles] what he thought about it and telling him as he had told me half crying that he thought theire was no ues that she had got to go ashor. Mr K[Knowles] told him he did not think it would be right to let the ship go ashor with out trying to save her, he then asked Mr K.[Knowles] what he though could be don. Mr K[Knowles] told him that we might make sail an Ship and posable featch by the land under our Lee wich would bring us in to the Artic [Arctic Ocean] Ocan where we would have plentey of sea rom. well he got completley galed and told Mr K[Knowles] to go on an do what ever he thought would be best. I had not been at work a grat while befor I see the men Making sail on the ship I came out of the hold with the men that I had to work with me and Joyend the Mates and we shipet an got sail on the ship, it seat in fogey and we cleard the Lee shor with out Biting it. and stood acrost Bearing Strates [Bering Straits] heading to the westward. it continued fogey and we tacked about in the straits caring all prudent sail to hold up. on the Night of the 19th {1860/07/19} we came near goin ashor on one of the Diomeges not knoing what land it was at the time. we wor Ship with in a half a mile of the Brakers. I called captain S. [Simmons] and told him about the Land that we had Just seen. well he said roled over in his bunk, back to me. what land is it. as thow I had ought to know when he did not know himself. he was under the enfluence of licker an maneged to keep so all the time. he turned out the next morning put a croud of sail on the ship that he would not think of doing if he had been sober. we headed in to the W.S.W. mad East Cape. and found a number of Ships theire at Anchor. captain. S.[Simmons] at the sit of the Ships began to Sober up. and we game with the Omegare[?] Capt Sanbon. and bored a anchor of him and come to under the Cape with the rest of the Ships. where we lay wating for the wind to com out from the
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got our anchors July the 25th {1860/07/25} the Night we found the anchors. Captain S.[Simmons] was bestley Drunk so that he could not get for an aft with out falling down every few steps. he was a larfing Stock for all hands, for I don think I ever saw a foulesher man then he is when he is drunk. we got off the remander of our wood and got under whay and stood out into the straits again. August the 1st {1860/08/01} we wer Just to the North of East Cape and had fine pleasant weather. saw plentey of whales. we maneged to get 3 in 8 dayes but if Captain S. [Simmons] had kept Sober we might of got as meney mor as well as to have got what we did. after we got the first tow cut in he did not apear to car weather we ever got a nother or not. the 3rd Mate called him one fine morning and told him thire was plentey of whales around, weathe he was Drunk or not is mor thin I can Say but I should say that thire was sum thing rong from the ancer that he gave the 3rd mate if he tells the truth he sayes that wen he called him. that he teold him that we could not take care of any mor oil at preasant. and fearther mor he did not warnt to be called out at that time of Night for whales, at that time we might taken cam of three whales with all Eas[?]. we nocked about in the Straits until the 13th of Augst.{1860/08/13} when ever we had fare weather we most all wayes saw whales. but if we had a breezes he was shor to run over them with the Ship. and if it was carlm it was emposable to strike one, one night about this time I came on deck at 10 Oclock P.M. I found the Ship heading in on the East Shor with all sail out. we was on the insid of the Straits to the North of Cap Prince of Whales. the land was not mor than 5 or 6 miles off and it was bloing on from the South. I asked the 3mate where he was bound he said he did not no that the captain had not give him any cours and that she had been befor the wind all his watch heading from North to East. it was bloing on at the time. and as we wer nearing the land fast I thought it was hi time
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Sober. he apeard to have no recalection what ever about where he had left the ship when he went to sleep and began to ask me strang questions about the land. I told him what land I thought it most likely to be he then after a long study came to the conclution that he must do somthing, so he told me to hall the Ship off. Shore four Points and he went belo. after a while he came up and gave me a cours for Cape Lisbon it bloed a heavey gale befor morning. and we hove to heading to the westward. when he com to get Sober an find whare the Ship was, and that he had left the whales. it kinder opend his Eyes. and he kept quit sober for a spell, but he did not go back we went North until we fel in with the ice betwen Lisbon and icey Cape. we stoped around there until the 20th {1860/07/20} and saw nothing we then went on to the compas Ground. found whales and ships. he kept prety strat while we wer there. but he was anything but sober the most of the time. we made out to get tow mor whales but that was a small part to whart we ought to have got if the season had been conducted as it should of been. we got 10 or 12 brlls of Potatoes out of the Henrey Kneland witch I bleve he Paid for, we had winterd in Plover bay and of course we had to Game with Eavery boday that was up for Gaming, and tell them about our winter Scrape. we pased awhay the time in this whay until along about the first of September, {1860/09/01} we saw whales Eavery now and then, we struk one. one day when the Captain was off a Gaming but parted from him again, we left the coumpas and whent up off Ice cape and pased awhay a few days and saw nothing. we whent out throw the straits on the 19th {1860/09/19} we tried to get in to Port Clearence[Clarence]. but the wind being a head we gave it up. and put awhay for Plover Bay: whare we Anchord on the 21st {1860/09/21} of Sep. the Captains Tasel top came off and bought her offspring with her. the Natives all apeard to be glad to see us. we got of sum water. and the captain whent on shor and the Natives say as well
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owr men wer all on dutey, but those that had been sick for any leanth of time wer not able to do a gradel but thay kept about. weather the captain got out of rum or not is mor then I can say. but he Eather must of got out or was trying to repent befor going in Port. he once got on a yarn with Mr K.[Knowles] about Back sliding. he halld on a long face and told the Mate how it stood with himself. saying that the will was good but the Fleash was week. he very seldom got off any thing briter then that. I have got ashamed of him quit often when thare was strangers on board. he may be a veary good man in his own contrey, as Jack said but he is to mutch out of place whare he is with whit men under him, our old chum the Brig that winterd with us and the Dutch Brig [Victory] Victeorey kept us compney down as fair as Gors Island. the day we wer pasing the Island the three captains wer on board of the Victory. we saw plentey of wright. Whales[right whales]. it was batefull weather. and it was the genrell opinoin on board of the ship that if Capt. S. [Simmons] had been on board and atended to his Dutey that we should have got a whale that day. we hove to that Night. and went around the Island the Next day. and then kept awhay for the Fox Islands. bownd for the [Sandwich Islands] Sandwitch Islands. nothing of any acount hapened until Just befor we went in to Port. one day we wer busey washing ship. the Captain came out on deck. and I Jugedge from his actions that he had made up his mind to run Mr K.[Knowles] out of the ship. he began. finding fault with him. and apearentley was derturmend to pick a quarale with him, Mr K. [Knowles] put up with it for a while. but when he kept on with his abus. he finley told him that if he did not sut him that theire would be a chance to get a man in his place in a few dayes. it apeard this was all he warnted. and he went off satesfied. when we got in to Port. he found that he could not beter him self. by Descharging him. and knowing that Mr K[Knowles] was going home if he left and would be
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voyage in the Ship if he could. Smouthed it all over. and every thing went on quit nice again for a while. he discharged the 4th Mate [???] I supose he was glad to get read of as he had been a grat del of truble to him in Plover Bay. and was awlwayes crosing him in love afaires with his tasselltop. and not caren what he might say about him as he was a Shingle Short as Jack said, he let him go fre seat. and gave him a Order for his voyage, he shiped a man in his place Name Carlin. we had quit a Job with the ship. for we had to scrape her all over. for. the weather had been so coald in Plover Bay. that it had frose the sap right out of the wood and it had crowded the Paint mostley all off leving her looking like a spoted lepard. we worked hard an soon got her looking like her self again, while we wer hard at work. on board the ship. captain S.[Simmons] was having a fine time on shor. our church member by this time had got to be a trump amung the Ladeyes. while we laing at Lahinani[Lahaina]. I was told he had bought a young Native girl from her Mother for 40 Dolers to stay with him while laying in Port, all the empty Beef blls had been saved. all the voyage wich lumberd up the ship a concerdrable. we had from 75 to 80 of them in the bluber room at one time. on the whale ground wich was taken up the rom of as mutch Oil. this was when capt. S [Simmons] told the 3rd Mate that we could not take care of any mor at preasent the morning he called him when theire was whales all around the ship. the brrls was all coopered with 6 new hoops on ech barell and taken on shor and sold. who is to receve the benefet of them is mor then I can say. but therre is one thing serten that we all did not receve much benefet from them when thay was taken up the rom in the bluber rom,



Nov the 14th 1860 {1860/11/14} we saild from lahinina[Lahaina] bound for Oahu: when we got down there it was bloing a gale from the South: captain S. [Simmons] whent on shor. and stoped four dayes. and kept the boat on shor with the crew. when he left the ship he told Mr K.[Knowles] he should be off in the morning. but when he got on shor. he said he was detaind on acount of a



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law sut that was going on about Captain Luis[?] for keeping her crew in Plover Bay all winter. he did not send the boat off. or any word to Mr K.[Knowles] and as he never gave the crew any money or any thing to get there meles with. half of them ran awhay. so he lost tow good men trying to save five Dolers boat hier. he and the Boat steerer was Sumonered as witneses at the tryal of Captain Leass[?]. the boat steerers gave in his Evedence and was cros question to the satisfation of all partyes. but when they got captain S. [Simmons] into the witnes stand thay caught him in a lie befor he had said a dozen words. he under took to apoligise befor the Court. saying that his head was thick and that he was confuesed. and did not know about sutch maters. I was after words told that. thay talked of puting him in the Chain gang for taken a falce Oath. and would of don sumthing of the kinde if he had not of been gaged off by the other capains and the Ship Charlenders.[?] who got him clear, I was told that after he was turned out of the court. that he took to the bottle. and was quit drunk for a cuple of dayes. he maneged to get off on the 18th {1860/11/18} and we made sail for the coast of California where we board a Rip Sacking. the captain was little under the weather on the passeg acrost so theire was nothing of any acount hapend until we arived in Turtle Bay. whare we arived Dec=the 16th {1860/12/16} we found 8 other ships theire when we went in the bay. but the whales had not struck on yeat. but as the other ships wer sending theire boats off of course we had to go to. we ust to make fast to the calf out sid of the heads off to bay and theire lay day after day with out seeing a whale. and while we wer out their one was a sartenn lot of Skipers encluding captain S. [Simmons] that ust to get togeather and have a time all in theire own whay. it was quit comon for us to come on board of a Night and find captain S. [Simmons] so drunk that he could not keep his feet without holding onto the rale. at such times when we came
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well that. I did not see him for 8 or 10 dayes. But I herd from him reagular Eavery Night from the cooper who ust to give me a ful acount of what was going on. no board. there was not much of a show befo Jenary for a whale and then theire was so much opezestion that it was all luck if anyone got a whale. sum of the time theire was 17 ships in the Bay. at sutch times it was emposable to catch a whale. but as it was a good harbor for a ship. and thay could have a time. thay hung it out wating for one another to go as thay all could plainley see that there was know chance for over 5 or 6 ships. we got our first whale the 10th of Jan. 1861= {1861/01/10}  the whales by this time ust to come along 15 or so, every day, and if theire had not been onley 6 ships thay all might of got 5 or 600 blls apece. but as it was the 9 ships that lay hear onley Evereged about 150 blls apece. When the whales came along the thickest theire ust to now and then one go in the Bay amung the ships. as most of the ships had a fith boat in the water for gaming. at sutch times thay would try theare luck at whaling. but most of the capains had theire fith boat feted for whaling and meat oil and sum of them caught a whale or tow. one day when theire was quit a number of whales in the bay and the rest of the captains we down in theire boats. captain. S. [Simmons] was under the enfluence of bottle he started off with the rest. the onley pece of crarft that he had in his boat was a Ion bent on to the boats warp. with tow boyes a sick man and the coopper for a boats crew, and he himself Drunk. but as luck would have it, he maneged to keep clear of the whales, and he never tryed it again.



while we lay hear theire was a Schooner came in from San Francesco [San Francisco] with reserves[?] and and wiskey to sell. the captain laid in a stock and paid for it in Oil. I came on board one Night. and hear was this small pile of vegetables on the quarter deck. I asked the coopper where thay came from. he told me that the captain bought them from the Sch and had Paid for them with Oil. and that he got a lot of licker at the sam time. the cooper said that the tow cask that he gave for the lot was sum 7 or 8 barells. 



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this was about the time that I lost sit of him for 8 dayes that I spoke of befor, the vegetables I was told was quit chep but sum of the Brandey he got I herd him say himself cost 7 Dollers a galen. wich acounts for the 8 barells of Oil that went on board the Sch=. the Oficers seldom went a gameing nights as we ust to see eatch other out in the Boats Eavery day and was genreley tired whin we came on board at night one Night we had sum comppnay in the Forward cabin and as we had no licker, thay brought theire own Each man furnishing a bottle, and as thay wer quit a livley seat. sum of them got quit goley[?] befor they left, but stil I did not see anything out of the whay, for I had seen many a Gam like it befor in other ships, we made sum noyes to be shor. but we enjoyed ourselfes, the Game broke up about 10 Oclock and every body whent home, the Oficers of the Defrent ships had acted like Gentlemen to what sum of the captains had sence we had been laying hear Espresheley Captain S. [Simmons] as that was a part of the play that he had never lernt to acte, the next Night after ower game when we came on board. Captain S. [Simmons] being a little under the enfluence of the bottle. he began lecturing Mr K. [Knowles] and told him he thought he had been ensulted by the crowd that was on board the Night befor, and that he wanted mor respect paid to him for the future, Mr K.[Knowles] did not make any alowence for his being in licker, and had quit a quarell with him, and came near leving the ship, witch capt. S.[Simmons] gave his concent to whilst in licker. but the next morning when Mr K.[Knowles] asked him for writings that he left with his concent, and was going to take him to his word. he began to open his Eyes, and apolegized to Mr K.[Knowles] but Mr K.[Knowles] encested upon leving I had a talk with him and told him he ought to make sum alowences for the mans being Drunk, this kinder made captain. S. [Simmons] open his Eyes and he kept quite Sober for a few dayes, Mr K [Knowles] went on with his Duty, but thigs took
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and gave it to me to take care of. I had had licker all all the voyage and had allways made a good use of it no one had ever seen me any the wors for licker on board the ship. or ever saw any truble arize from licker that was under my charge, captain S. [Simmons] after laying in a stock him self and being drunk as mutch as he had since we had been laying hear, he had the cheek to tel Mr K. [Knowles] that theire had been licker brought on board. by sum of us officers and ferther mor teling him that he had no right to bring it on board and asked him if he know the Low in sutch a case, if this string had come from a sober man and a man that had seat his Oficers a good exyample it would of been al lright. but the Ideare of him puting on sutch Frills is what gets everybodey after the whay he has conducted himself, he neve said anything to me about the licker, but he once asked the 4th Mate if he was awhare that he was going contterry to the ships artickles. when he brought that licker on board. he told him he thought the artickles held him responceble a whel as himself and if thare was any charge against him. that he thought he would half to suffer as wel as himself. captain S. [Simmons] dryed up at once and has never under took to argue the point of Law with the 4th Mate sence, I was not out of the ship onley tow or three Evenings during the hol time we lay hear and as for the licker I did not drink a glase whilst we lay hear, and I always tryed to hide the captains Drunknes as mutch as poseble befor strangers, one morning I came up to clear awhay my Boat. theire was tow of my crew mising tow of the best men in the ship. men that was allways the first at Everything and I never had knon one of them to be behind befor. the Captain was on deck at the time. I know theire was sumthing rong, so I started Forward to look for them when I got to the for Scuttle I found the captain theire wating for them to com up he had allready sung out to them. but thay did not answer him. I spok to the captain befor I sang out to the men
and told him that sum thing was rong for I had never known them tow men to be behind befor, I suposed he would take the hint and leve the men to me. I sang out for them and thay both arncered me at once, this made captain S [Simmons] mad to think thay would arncer me after not 



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arncering his call. when I saw the men coming I thought every thing was all right. and as captain S. [Simmons] had never struck one of thes men the voyage I little dremt of his doing sutch a thing or dew I beleve he would if he had not been in licker himself. when the first man came out of the Scuttle he struck him with a Rope the man showed fight, witch so suprized the captain that he run and left the man and sang out for me. I Jumped forward and I saw at once from the mens convenstion that thay had been drinking, thay told me that thay did not get on board until midnight, and after thay did com on board thay wer up all the remander part of the Night trying to keep a drunking man stil in the for hold that ensisted upon going arft the captain, and that thay had Just fel asleep towards morning. and that thay told the watch when thay layed down to be Shor and give them a rous in the morning when all hands was called. and as thay wer not cald and wen kept up all Night a gaming. and wer in licker and I had never had any acaetion to punish one of them in the voyage. I mealey told them to stop theire noyes and get in to the boat witch thay was about to obey. it was not quit day lit at the time. and as the men came along aft the captain caught up a Spade and was about to strike one of them when I caught the spade out of his hand, he then caught up a large notey stick of wood and struck one of them over the head. and was about to strike the secont blow when I took the stick awhay from him. all the other boats had gon. and I had as mutch as I could dew to keep the men from having theire revenge for striking them. captain S. [Simmons] ran aft and ordered me to put the men in ions. as he was in licker and theire was no mor men to go on the Boat in thire place. and the men wer wiling to do what ever I told them to do. I ordered them in to the boat got in myself and shoved off. when it came daylit, I found the man that the captain struck with the stick of would was all full of blood and was pretty badley hurt, thay got quit
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for thay had got it in to theire heads that the captain would hold this scrape against them, I told them to go on with theire duty and behave as well as thay had all the voyage and that thay would never hear of it again, when I cam on board that Night after all the rest of the oficers had left the table, captain S [Simmons] asked me how them tow men got along. I told him thay was all [???] exept the one he struck in the head with the stick of wood. captain. S= [Simmons] was quit sober and apeard to be quit fritend when I menchend the stick of wood to him. he colerd up and wanted to know how I know that he struck him. when I told him that I saw him, he them half acknoleged that he was Drunk by saying that he did not remonember of it and if he did strike him he must of been drunk. it apeard it was the law he was afraid of, after this Scrape he kept quit Sober --



we got 7 whales During our stay hear witch made rezing[?] 200 brlls= and I dont think I ever worked harder, or had as mutch truble for so lettle quarnety of oil in my life, for the most of the whales sink after thay turn up and we seldom get them to the ship for three or four days, 



Febary the 19th {1861/02/19} we tuned out as usuel to go in our boats Mr K. [Knowles] was sick that morning, it was right in the hith of season for the whales had got to cuming along in large Sumes. we had taken tow whales during the last three days and had the Oil on deck at this time. captain S= [Simmons] came along to me and told me to get the Ship ready for sea. and we saild that veary same day, about the time we was fairley under whay about came alonsid with a man by the Name of Chace who had left the Bark Corale, to get a passeg. acrost to the Islands with us. I had seen the man quit often during the time we had been in the bay and got slitley aquanted with, him, he always made quit an apearence amung the rest of the oficer in the bay, and at first sit I had taken him on the brit sid as he allwayes apeard to me hale Fello well met so far, when we wer fairley under whay capt- S.[Simmons] asked me if I could not make rom for Mr C [Chase] down in the Forward cabin. I had a spar bunk in my rom that I uesd for a locker. I cleard it out to acomudate Mr. C- [Chase] and made him wilcom in my own State room -,



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Mr K= [Knowles] was sick for the first tow or three days and Mr. C= [Chace] apeard to take a grat entrest in his wellfair, and paying all sutch atention to Mr= K= [Knowles] as a sick man genreley requiers. and at the same time runing him to the loest pich behind his back, Mr K [Knowles] was well in a few days. and about his dutey. it did not take Mr chace long to find out Capt= S. [Simmons] had one very weke Point, that was smiling and apearentley being quit plesed with the words Captain and ser witch Chace uesed at every other worda as captain S- [Simmons] was a Portges by birth. he genreley apeard and would oftimes hint that he did not get all the respect that was dew him as a captain, by his Oficers and crew. I dont think I ever sliteded him. for I had been brought up to respect the Ofice that the man held let him be who he might be. with Mr C- [Chace] Captain and Ser he wound the Captain right up around his thumb. and Captain S= [Simmons] set him down for a Genle man of the first water, and thay warked the quarter Deck togeather all the Passeg over, and in the day time. when Mr K [Knowles] was cariing on the work about decks, they would quit often stop short and both gaze at him and as thay turned and walked aft thay would smile and whin thay walked forward again. thay would both of them have on a long face. it was surmized by the hol ships coumpney that thay wer talking about Mr. K. [Knowles] and was trying to run him out of the Ship as it after words turned out to be so. after Chace once got fairley in with the capt he Seldom spok to Mr K [Knowles] atall, but he was allwayes up for a yarn with the rest of us if the Captain warnt around, he told us a grate meney yarns about when he was in the Merchant Servers. and he allwayes made himself out the Hero of his own yarns. witch I supose one or tow of them would not go a mis. he told me that befor he came out hear to the [Sandwich Islands] sandwitch Islands. that he was saling out of Boston as Mate and that he had had one secont Mate. with him a number of
voyages. and thhet thay had agred to sail togeather on one surten voyage. but after he shiped he went on board and he found that theire was a secont Mate on board that had been in the ship the voyage befo, he said he was a fine smart looking chap. but then he had made up his mind on having his old chum go with him. so he sayed he thought he might as well dew the Job at once. so he walked up to the 



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Man and told him that he did not lik the looks of him and that he knowed that thay could not sail togeather and he gave him to under stand that he thought he had better leve. the man not being enclin to quarale as he sayes he took his things and left. and he sent for his chumey and thay went the voyage togeather, he told me a number of yarnes simular to this one. I dont make mention of this because I thint he was brit or smart or that I bleve it, or any thing of that kind. I mealey make mention of it because it wil Just fay[?] with sum of his curniving on board of this ship. as he ran tow of the oficers of this ship and had a tryale of the therd one. he told the captain a grate menney yarnes about the Difrent ships that he had been in where thay had had truble with the men and wheare he had walked in to them and laid them all out and the Captain and the secont mate allwayes got along Just in time to see the last one fall, he gave Captain. S= [Simmons] to understand that the captain of the ship that he was Mate of. never had to dertey there hand with Salors, that he was a hors and a teme to let and that a whalers crew in a four boat ship was Just a good mel for him. Captain S. [Simmons] thought he was Just the man he wanted. and I as well as the hole ships coumpney wer half enclind to think that he had agred with Chace befor we wer half whay acrost to the Islands to go with him. if he got clear of Mr. K. [Knowles]. Captain S= [Simmons] treted him very colley all the passeg and did not speak to him during the Passeag or did he com into the forward cabin to Eat with us. he had his meals in the after cabin all the passeg, Chace put on a Frill or tow that did not raze him a grade del in my estermation, one day he haled the Steuard with his comanding voyece and asked him if he could not raze a cleaner table clorth, this was not send for what he cared about the cloth but just to let the captain in the arfter cabin hear what a trump he was= Mr K. [Knowles] spok up and told him that the Captain had Eat off or that sam
cloth all voyage. without Ever saying a word a bout it and if it was good Enugh for him. that he thought he could stand it. Chace mealey remarcked then that that was the Derteyes table clorth that he had ever Eat off of, so the Captain might hear him--



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it apeard to me that he warnted to let the captain no that he was a Brick. he made a grate meney other remarks on the Passg about difrent things in the hearing of the Captain, he gave captain S= [Simmons] to understand as plain as thow he had said the words that he was the man that he ought to have for Mate, and that if he was mate of the Ship that he would make things go strait, and that it was a pittey that as fine a man as he was to be without a A one man for a Mate and a man that could be a companion for him. and gave him to under stand. that Mr K [Knowles] was a dul sort of a thing and to much of a graney for a Mate of a Ship. this is what Chace Genreley tells strangers when he gos a Gaming, that Mr K [Knowles] was to mutch of a old Graney for a Mate and that captain S- [Simmons] wanted a man with sum life in him. Chace careid on this back biting and tow face work all the passeg. we went in to Honolulu on the 6th of March {1861/03/06} arfter we got the ship Mord. on the next day. Captain S. [Simmons] came up and told Mr Knowles that he was ready to Discharge him. Mr. K. [Knowles] gave him to under stand that he did not cair about leving the Ship but captain S [Simmons] it apears was dertermend he should. and he begain hering Eaver little spat that thay had at defrent times on the voyage until he got Mr K [Knowles] in a passion. and he whent on-shor and was discharged, and then he shipped Chace and gave him between 3 and 400 $ advance. and Chace saye that he gave him sum of his advance. when he first got onshor befor he spok to Mr K. [Knowles] about leving. this I bleve to be so for he came off to the ship in about two hours after he left the ship, when we first got in with a New suit of close and a plentey of money, who had a New [???] Mast to put in and the recruts to geat off. I caride on the work for a few dayes. one day captain S- [Simmons] came off and he told me to go on with the work for a little while longer and told me wat he warnted don and that Mr Chace would be off in a few days. this was the
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him or not. I dont know but it would been all right Enough if Chace had been an Experance man, but the idear of having this man that had not only been tow seasons in the whaling busniss Shepped[?] over me when I had been brought up in the buiness, their was not a grate meney ships in Port and what few, theire was had theire oficers all sheped and theire was plentey of them on the bech wating for chances to get awhay. I was told by a grat meney difrent oficers, while laying in Port that Chace was a very mischef making man on board of a ship & that he could make a perfect hell on board the Clione [Cleone] befor the Season was up, I thought it all over and I made up my mind I could get along with him for one season, as I had saild with a grate meney defrent caracters sence I had been going to sea and all wayes mad out to get along in sum shape or rather.



Mr C- [Chace] came on bord about the 10th of March= {18612/03/10} he came on board a number of times befor he cam on dutey but he took charge about the 10th at sutch time when he would coum on deck he would put on a grate meney flerts and Frills and say to me that he would be on board in a day or to and stratin them. I asked him one day what he ment by it. he alowed that he had got to nock down about half of the crew when he turned to. I told him if he was a going to abues them men that came from home in the ship- that he would get him self into truble, and if he did he would haf to get out of it the best whay he could I told him thay was the best seat of men I had ever sailed with. and that I never had any acation to strik one of them on the voyage. this was befor I found out he was a coward. he took my advice and neve struck a whit man while he was in the Ship but he had from one to three of the conackers [Kanakas] layed out about all the tim when he first came on board. and the Natives enterd a complaint to the Orthorety about his el tretement towards them. and the Captain was heald up about it. Captain S [Simmons] ensted of going to Chace and finding out what he had been abusing the Natives for, he came to me and told me to tell Mr C [Chace] to be kinder of Easey until we left Port that he had been halld up and if he did not Eas up on them that he 



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would get him in to trouble. I told Chace and he let them alone for a pell, the old For Mast was all ready for heaving out when Chace came on board. he kept about half Drunk all the time, and made quit a noye for the first tow or three dayes about decks amung the work. and don mor hurt then good he was the meanes of caring awhay a portion of the lowr Decks witch made a three days Job for the Carpenders. when he under took to step the new mast. arfter thes hapened he left eavery thing to me, and I told him what to dew and how to do it. and he was Genreley on shor or on the Sofa in the arfter Cabin, when he would go belo he would com along to me and tell me what a head ack he had and to give him a call if the captin was coming off, if the captain should hapen off during working hours. I would give him a call. he would have a Measuring Stick in his hand with sum tar on it and be to the Gang whay to receve the Captain, arfter the Captain would get on deck and get into a convation with him he would leve the captain right in the middle of a sentance and Jump forward and nock down a camacker [Kanaka] or tow and make a pass at tow or three mor and be back alongside of the Captain again in les time than it takes me to write it. this was Just to show captain S.[Simmons] that he was Just the man he told him he was on the passeg over from the Coast,



The following is the convasation that he had with the Captain when he Shipped. as I got it from him when he first came on board. Sayes he captain I am agoing aboard that ship to be mate and I am going to be Mate. no one shall loaf about that Ships Deck when I am at work. for if there is any loafing to be don after you comes me Captain. but I dont calculate to work myself onley when theire is whaling going on Captain. and I want to tel you a nothing Captain, that therd Mate and I cant sail togeather. and I think the best thing you can dew with him is to discharge at once C-- [Chace] arfter geting off this string with out hardly taking time to get his breath, he goes right on with a string of 



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Soft Soap to me. telling me what the captain had told him about me, he sayes captain. S. [Simmons] told him that he had Just as good a scont Mate as warnted and that he thought we could get along first rate, and that he Should of shipped him as mate if he had not meade his aquaintenc coming over from the Coast, I began to see the point Chace was a playing for, and I was wel awhare that he was a going to make mischef in the Ship. I had a strong mind to leve. but as the times was so hard and in all properbeletey I should lows the season if I left the ship and I could not dow any wors if I whent in her, so I finley made up my mind to go the cruis let turn up what might,.



Chace thought if he onley could run the 3rd Mate out, and get the captain to premot the 4th Mate that he would secure one frind that would stand by him, and help him to be Mate, as the 4th Mate had been awhaling 9 or 10 years. and could give him a good deel of enformation; that he requiered in cace he did not carey his Point with the Captain, but this geting read of the 3rd Mate was not sutch a easey Job as he took it to be at first sit, for the 3rd Mate had been in the ship Ever sence she had been a whaling upwards to 11 years, and had no notion of leving, Chace had taken stock of him on the passeg over, and he made up his mind that he would not dow to fall back on in cace he made a misdeal with the Captain, so he kept at work at the Capt- until he caried the day, and now to tel how thay don it. as captain S. [Simmons] and the 3rd Mate had been togeather for 10 years, it was sum time befor he could put a face on to broch the subgect, but with Chace dinging at him Eavery time he saw him to know what he was going tow with the 3rd Mate. as Chace ust to say was the whay he ust to put the qustion to the Captain, a few days befor we wer readey for sea. Captain S- [Simmons] took the 3rd Mate into the arfter cabin told him he was no mor Oficer on board of his Ship and he could take his things out of the cabin that theire was no mor ferther rome for him down there. the 3rd Mate was taken by surprize and warnted to no what all this was for, Capt S. [Simmons] began to heave up eavery lettley Ensstance that had happened whare 



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the 3rd Mate had been in the falt, from the begining of the voyage up to the preasent time, but the Princleles[?] thing that he brought up that he was about to breck him for. was because he did not kil the whale that capsizede me that November in Plover Bay. witch happend over a year befor. this is what I should call a por excuse, as we had been into Port befo in the fall and if had warnted to of discharged him for that he might of made one Job of it, and Discharged him when he did the 4th Mate, the 3rd Mate did not take his things out of the cabin, but whent on with his Dutey. Captain S- [Simmons] asked me one day what the 3rd Mate was going to tow I told I did not Know. when he found I had nothing to say about the subgect he went on with a string and wound up with saying that he had better make up his mind befor long, things went on this whay for a few dayes. arfter a while the Captain when he came on board would ask the 3rd Mate if he had got his things out of that cabin yet and if he had not he warnted him to get them out befor long for he had shipped a nother Man in his place. arfter a while the 3rd Mate went to the Councle, and he advized him to take his Dischargeg- teling him if the Captain and Mate what made up there minds to run him out, that he could onley protect him while laying in Port. and that if he did go in the ship that thay might put him in the Fore-castell when thay got him out sid, on this the 3rd Mate left the Ship that had been his home for the last 10 years, Chace then cared his Point and got the 4th Mate put in as 3rd Mate. witch he thought was showing him a grate faver, and hinted to him the same and gave him to under stand that thay wer to be sworn Frinds from this time out, Captain S. [Simmons] then Shipped a man that had been Mate of a ship. for a Forth Mate- his Name is Streeter who proved to be a veary good man. and ought to have been the Mate insted of the Forth Mate, and Chace had ought of been in his place and then we Should of been better riged, but hear we was us three under
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I worked hard during the three weeks that we lay in Port. and I seldom whent out of the ship. one sunday I thought I would take a days liberty. Chace he agred to look out for the Ship, and as Captain S- [Simmons] had Shipped him as Mate I thought he could be trusted, the Ship layed clost into the Docks, along about non I met Chace I asked him who was looking out for the Ship, and he sayed he had onley come ashor for a minnut or tow that he was going right on board again, he was half Drunk at the tim, I watched him and when I saw that he did not go to the Ship, I fel in with the 3rd Mate, Mr. Carling, and we made it up betwen us to look out for the ship the remander of the time we lay in Port. that was the first and last time Chace was left in charge of the Ship. Chace was not on board mutch the last 3 days in Port and when the Harbor Master came on board to unmor the ship, he went on board of a nother ship to save his credit, as he did not know how to take the Anchors. one Night he hapened in to a hotell where theire was quit a number of Oficers of whalers and other Gentlemen. Mr. Streeter, the man that Shipped 4th Mate was in the croud, Chace puts on a Frill or tow and walks up to Mr Streeter and says to him with a flert of his head and a shake of his forfinger if you ant on board of that Ship tomorrow I shall ship a nother man in your place. this did not take a wel as he thought it was a going to, as the most of the croud know Mr S- [Streeter] and thay laught quit heartey over the idear of Chace puing on sutch frills with a man of Mr. Streeters standing in the whaling bisniss. this is sumthing of the shape he trys to keep himself in all the time, allwayes trying to make him self out somebody befor strangers, but the pepple in Honalulu [Honolulu] have got his Measure and the genrell Opnion amung them was befor whe saild, that Captain S- [Simmons] would repent his bargen befor thay had saild long togeather,



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hear him get it off, sm times in les than five minuts arfter I had told him what he ought to have don, he and the captain was veary thick and captain S.[Simmons] apeard to like him. so I made up my mind to get along with him the best whay I could, he was the captain compaion and he played his part right to the handle. he wor his shor close and his clorth Gaters with theire patent learther hels and toes, with his hat on three hares and the remander of it turned under witch ust to take him one therd of his time to make it Say put, he would walk the quarter Deck and amues the captain with his choyeses yarnes. witch apeard to pleas the captain Mightley. at 11 Oclock reaurgley the capt- would send the boy up to call Mr C- [Chace] down the cabin to take his Betters befor Diner, witch Captain S- [Simmons] had a plentey of, as he had layed in over tow barells to trade with the Natives up in Plover Bay for Bon, the captain seldom drank I bleve sence we left, as he had got sum complaint that the Doctors forbid the ues of licker, but he had layed in a stock of Ale,[?] witch he ust to Drink himself, Thay told Eatch other eavery thing thay know. talked over all there Famley afaires told one an another all theire Secrets. and finley talked out then Chace Entrudueses the the Cards, one Night he hald ut a pack a cards, do your Ever play Cards he sayes. to the Capain, wil no sayes captain S- [Simmons] I dont know mutch about them, good things Captain to pass a whay and Idle hour, and at the same time cuming acrost the cabin to seat himself beside the Captain for a game. What game do you play Captain, all this time Chace his going on with this String the Captain seats like a Schoolboy who is taken a lecture from his master. wel sayes capt- S [Simmons] I dont know any game but hi lo Jack and the game, wel sayes Chace, seeing that he was gaining ground, he halles his chare up a little closter and begins to shuffle the Cards. saying I wil learn you to play uker Captain, this Captain sweeten him so that he can nither move or speak,
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remember. thay played reagular arfter this eavery Night, it wasnot the game that captin S [Simmons] took so mutch pleasure in, it was the respect that Chase paid him while playing. for Chace had got his wek Point, and it was Enugh to make a Hors sick to see them holding a convasation togeather, and to hear Chace aply the word Capt= witch he got so he ust to put it in Eavery other word, and arfter a while the men got to taken notice of all thes things, and I have quit often caught them peking over the Try works and laughing amung them selfs to see the Captin blushing and smiling while under going a show of Chaces Politness, after he got talked out with the captain. he condisended to low himself a peag and get on a yarn with us under Oficers once in a while as he turmed us. I never know him to tel a yarn that he warnt the Hero of. he was allwayes telling of sum big fight that he had been in wheare he had wiped from 15 to 20 men and don it up in shap without geting a scratch himself.. I finley put a stop to his big yarnes with me one day he was teling of a very large chap that he had wepit in les time then it took him to tel of it. I looket at him grat Ernest and asked him if the man was foolish or Drunk. he never told me another one of his fiting yarnes after that, I had a pretey good run of him by this time, arfter a while he got to carrin yarn to the Captain, arfter I once found that out I had as little to do with him as poseble. one day he sayes to me how did Knowles and the Captain ust to pas awhay the time. I told him that Mr K [Knowles] was not a veary talkative man, and as he was a man that would never pres a man into convasation. thay seldom got on a yarn, wel he sayes Knowels [Knowles] told me he warnt much of a talker, but I thought I could make him talk, the boats wer all fetted and the princable part of the work don up, we had nothing to do but to work ship, Chace never looked beyond the quarter Deck, and if he ever under took to dow any thing brit or smart in the whay of ship's dutey it was allwayes
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and if the Captain did not hapen out on Deck for a day or so witch was quit often the cace on the passeg North the Ropes might form a scratch cradle on the pins and he would never think of having them stratend, we had a set of water Buckets with the ships Name upon them. thes set in a rack on the Bero[?] over head on the quarter Deck, this was one of his faverite Jobs to keep them Buckets so thay would read the ships name, it was the same with the Buckets as with the ropes as long as the Captain was out of sit. but when the Captain came out of the cabin dor he was shor to leave them buckets stratened and the ropes on the quarter all hove down and coyeld up over again and the qurter Deck swept off, and genreley befor he get throw with it he would nock down three or four of the cnackners, [Kanakas] if the Captain should chance to sing out at the man at the whele and the man did not arncer at the same instent and lowed enough to sut his idears he would Jump to clime the pop; and if it was a por Native he would pound him shamefuley and ask him y he did not arncer the Captain, but if one of the old crew hapend to be at the whele he would fall back & look like the man was a going out to but the Bul used[?] his courage faled him befor he got theire, quit often when he had the watch arft clearing up the quarter Deck and measuring the bites of every rop as thay Coyeld them on the pins, any man with half an Eye could see a good days work Foreward of the Main Mast in the whay of cleaning up- the Friwork[?] would be all luberd up the and the Forcastle the same, with wash tubs with dertey warter in them, and the runing rigen throd helter Skelter all over the deck, I kept thes things strait as long as I posebley could with out ever saing a word. then I would let them go for a spel to see if he would take any entres beyound the quarter deck, when I found out I had got to take charge of thes things in order to kep them strait I whent about it with a wil, and quit often when the Captain was on deck if I was forward clearing up
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life had been at Stack, he had a grate habet of teling me to have something don when he had herd me in side of the same moment tel a man to do it, this was so as he might have sumthing to say, I let him have his own whay and pretended not to notice him, he never would get on a yarn with one of his under Oficers as he turmed us. if the Captain was around, for if he was right in the midelle of a sentence with one of us, and the Captain Should happen to pop out on Deck he would coler up cut short and snek arft as tho he had Stolding sumthing this apeard to be a grate crime in his Eyes to be cought talking to one of us under Oficers, he ust to tell me all the defrent yarnes that he had spun the Captain and how he took them, and all that the Captain told him and what he thought of them, when he and captain S. [Simmons] was the thickest he told me that the Captain had told him if we got a thousand barells this cruis, that he was going to give him the ship and go home over land, then he goes on to tel what he wil do when he takes charge, In the first place we wel Stratin them he sayes Mr Strout mening the men, I kept mum and listend to him, he then whent on teling what altration he was going to make about the Ship, as for the cabins he says I shunt allter them for I like the way thay ar aranged firstrate. and I think Every ship had ought to be riged in the same whay, for I dont think the Captain and Mate of a ship ought to be mixest in with the under Oficers but ought to have a place where thay can converse with out being over herd by the under oficers, good idear this when the Captain wil listen to the yarns of a Stranger about men that, he is better aquanted with - Chace ust to ask me quit often if I did not think we should get that 1,000 brlls, and if I did not think we should stand a sit of picking up tow or three dead whales. he ust to quit often say he thought it emposable for a ship to go a hole season with out picking up tow or three dead whales. thes apeard to be his main dependence, he very seldom taked of
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would be a man short, as he would be of no help to them what ever. I told him his boat steerer was a good whaling man, and as good a Boat Steearer as ever got into the head of a boat, he began to mis trust that I saw his motive for bringing up the subject, he gave his head a flert with the aire of an Experience whaleman saying that it did not make any ordes how good a man he was he could not head his boat, this all hapen befor we loer the first time, the first time we loer for whales. he gave his boat up entiley to his boat crew and thay tel him to go where ever thay plese, and when thay wont tell him where to go he wil keep clost under the lee of sum of the under-Oficers and brow theire Judgement, we did not comence whaling befor the middle of may, so theire was sum time arfter we had the ship readey for whaling befor we fel in with the first whale, all this time our Hero was doing his preteyest to gain the good Grace of the Captain, he would get of an order to me, one of us under Oficers befor the Capt- a often as he could, when there was nothing Els he could think of he would tel one of us to send a man arft with a tar bucket, this was arfter the Riggen had all been fetted and the tar buckets all stowed awhay, and the ship amung the ice on the whaling Ground, arfter the man would get a bucket and bring it arft, and wate five or ten minuts In the preasence of him and the Captain he would look first at the man and them at the Captain for tow or three times, as thow he was rather a frade that the Captain under stood the move he was up to, then he would put on a frill or to, raze his commanding voice and tell the man to go and tar all the whit spots he could find in the Main and Mizen[?] Riggen, at the same time he knowed that the Riggen was all in good order, this was a kind of a Slur on me as I had had the rigging put in order myself. I dont supose he was a whare of it at the time, or even if he had have been, he would not of kared so long as he caried his Point and made the Captain think he took a grat Entrest
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to make him self out a grate big somebodey in the Eyes of the Captain, the ForRiggen, the part of the ship that he is suposed to take an Entrest in, is gratley in warnt of all the attention he was paying where it warsnt neded, for he might of uesd a half barell of Tar and found work for five or six men for three or four days, on the Four Riggin to a good advantage, at the sam time when he would have tow or thre men dusting off the riggin arft any man could see with half an Eye, that a barell would haf to be badley strained to hold the Close -stops and Irish Penents, streeming out of the for Riggin, the respect that the Captain was geting from Chace cuverd all this, so that he pretended he did not see all this tow Face work, sum times thay would be walking the decks togeather of an evining and Chace would catch a note that hapened to cum out of the Scuttle from sum chap that had life enugh in him to amues his ship mates with a song. he would leve the Captain and go along to the Forcastle Scuttle, and sing out with that commanding voice to Stop that noyes down therre, on sum of this acation he would get sum horful cursings befor he could get clear of the Scuttle with witch he never made any ofer to stop, as the Captain did not hear them, and he had Eficted his purpis he would walk aft again and Joine the Capain, with as meney Frills on as thow he had not herd a word the men said to him. if the Capain was not around he would look at the simplest of the whit men and talk with them Just as if he wel knowed that thay wer his superers and that thay all knowed him as wel as he knowed him self, and that thay wer all awhare that he had no bisines on board of the ship in that compasetey, but he allwayes maneged to carey a hi hand over the Por Natives, as thay never checked him or rezentet his blos one day Just arfter taken a drink with the capain he came out of the cabin, this fid, Just seat him on his tape, and when the captain cam out on deck he sayes to to a boat Steearer hat had been with me for the last seven years,
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of this ship. I was astoneshed when I heard him giting off this string, and I did not see the drift of it at first, but as this man had been with me so long and I had never knowed him to disrespect me in any whay befor, and then he told Chace right to his face that he was mistaken, and right befor the Captain to witch made him blush witch of cours he took no notice of, arfter the Captain whent awhay I told Mr. C. [Chace] he ned not give himself any truble in my behalf. that if he got all the respect that was dow him he would have as mutch as he could tend to, he had not a word to say to that as he wel knew that I knew what it was don for, and he never tryed it on again, but every day he would cunger out sum thing to get of in the preasences of the Captain to make him self out sum boday, he had a practec of calling out the watch when Ever the Captain was on deck at Eight bels befor the sound would barely get out of the bel he would be to the For Scuttle and from there to the Steerage, One day he vencherted to the Cabin dor and haled the boy with his commanding voice loud Enough to be herd by the Capain asking him if the Oficers had been called down there. the third Mate told him that he could tel the captain that the Oficers wer all out, he found that would not work that he was going to let the Cat out if he did not drop that game as the Captain was Just as apt to hear the arncer as he was to hear the call. witch he could not hear from the Forecastle and Steerage, so

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When we got up to the ice when we first got North he put on a grate menay airs, and ran up and down the riggin and made all sors of remarks about the Ice to the Captain, the last time he cam down he shuk his head as tho he had no idear of being disapointed when we first razed the ice, this is his therd season in the whaling bisnis and his first one in the Artic [Arctic], he shakes his head with an aire of a man that had been a whaling all his lif and sayes to the Captain, that is no Bohead ice Captain, and repetes it over for tow or three times, as thow he was perfickley satisfied that a whale could not live around sutch ice tow minuts, afew days arfter this we ganed with the first ships we had seen the season Captain S [Simmons] whent on board of the Gulen of New Bedford. Captain Winegar, and his grate suprize heare was Mr Knowles our mate that he had left in the Islands Mate of her, when the Boat was lowering to go on this gam one of the Natives that belonged to that boat was about to get in to her, Chace called him back and beet him and sent one of my men in his place. I told him that man that he had Just halled out of that boat belonged to her, and that man he had sent in his place belonged to my boat he alowed he knowed it but he warnted a good man in the boat. I then told him veary coley if that man warnt fet to pull the Captain on board of that Ship a gaming that he was not fet to go in any boat arfter a whale witch he would haf to of don if we should of razed whales whilst he was Gaming, as he knowed nothing about sutch maters. he had nothing mor to say, and contented himself with the ideare that he had don the Captain a grate faver by picking him out a boats crew, this was the first time the ship had been left under his charge sence we saild and I don think a Scool boy Ever was mor tickled the first time thay had full command of a hors and wagon the he apeard to be with the responcebetey of looking out for the ship. while the other tow ships we wer a gaming with we hove to and scaseley moved, and did 



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not tutch a rope while we wer a gaming, our Hero in the whay of Showing off. Sations the men at the braces, postes him self on the bow and with his commanding voice makes mor noyes them the Marsters Mate of the Gun Deck of a Seventy four, any one would of thought to of heard him that we was beating up a Nave Channel with tow Pilots on board. it was my watch belo I trede to slep but that was emposable with the rackette that was going on over head, I came up on deck I asked the 3rd Mate what was up, he alowered that the first Lutenent was trying to get them other tow ships to bear so we could get a Rakeing fier on both of them at once, that he apeard to warnt to make one Job of it and End the battle at once, we gamed about 2 hours and during that time he made and took in all sail three times, besides saling from 10 to 15 [???] miles while the tow ships in cumpeney had not gon a mile, this was our first Gam, and last one of that kind. as I rather gues that he mistrusted from the convasation that was going around amung the men that his seamen ship was not so mutch thought of as he thought it was going to be when he first began to dissplay it. sum of the men was going to by him a ship one that he could handle all himself, other alowed that it was a Shame for him to wast that comanding voice on board of a Spouter and that a man like him had ought to be in the Navy, arfter this when we wer gaming he ust to maneg to get throw with it with out quit so mutch usles work but stil it was emposable for him to keep from puting on all them frills that I have spoke of befor. one day on the passage north we was going to send out a Top Mast Studding Sail it was my watch on deck the Capain was arft on the poop, I stood along arft readey to geather in the Shack of the tack a I genreley had don on sutch acation when the Mate was bossing the seating of the sail and the boat Steearers was bending on to the saile, when the Sail was about ready to go aloft he cam along to me. and razes his comanding voice and sayes Jump Forward there Mr.
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and bend on to that sal, if he had ever given me an order of that kind whin the Captain was not around I should not thought any thing about it, but as all the Orders I had ever got from him was in the preasences of the Captain. I began to see what they was for, and if theire was any thing I am down on it is to see sutch under handed tow face work going on aboard of a ship, and as I thought he had caried it about far Enugh I told him what I thought about sutch work and gave him a little advice, he whent forward to bend on to the sail himself, arfter the sail was set he comes along to me and sayes Mr Strout I did not think that of you, as thow he had made a bargen with me to put up with sutch work, and did not think I would expoes him befor the Captain, I told him I was wiling to put up with a little sutch work for the sake of helpen him along. but he had got to carring the thing rather to far, what I said I said as coll and calm as posable thinking it might check him and we might get along for the future cher[?], this stuck in his crop and he thought that I would be apt to cross him if things did not take a turn befor long. so he try to make himself good by sending on a nother tack, we stel kept on talking turmes. and from this out he was all wayes runing the Captain to me to the loest pitch, and apearentley try to get me to say sum thing about him, he quit often asked me how thay com to give him a ship and if thay could not find a whit man to take her, I see what he was up to, I had herd from sum of his Ship Mates that was with him the Season befo that he kept the Captain posted up all the time about Eavery thing that was going on in the Ship, and throw his Newes caring, he had been the cause of tow of the oficers leving her on the whaleing Ground and taken passeg in other ships, I was told that if he ever had any disliken to any one on board that he never was at loss to find a yarn to spin the Captain about them, as he could put a yarn togeather and get it off in good shape wheare anyone would listining to him
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the captain, I would Generely say as little as posable and what I did say would all wayes be in his faver, when Chace saw this he found he could not make that game work. he keeps mum a spel with me, and entarenes[?] on his Respect to the Captain, he tryed veary hard to get us Under Oficer to quareling amung ourselfes but that did not work, we found him out at this and we ust to have maney a Laugh when we got togeather about the direfrent yarns that he would spin us about Eatch other when talking a lone with him --



The falowing is sum of our Heros Seaman Ship - he would take as mutch time and make a mutch noyes seating a top Galent Sail as a Salor would do to take a Ship with her Top mast housed and put Eavery thing a tanttome, [?] one day Captain S [Simmons] being a little under the weather he left the Ship under the Charg of our first Lutenent with all the sail out. the weather was rather Squaley and it requierd a man in charge that knowed mor about a Ship then our Hero, he had not had charge long befo awhay went the Gib and Flying Gib boms and split the Gib all at one smash, the Captain came up and took charge with out saying a word = how could he say a word when it was don so respectfuley= when Ever Chace was cuting and wasting New Riggin or canvis Captain S= [Simmons] never noticed it= witch was Easley acounted for= arfter Chace teling him so meney funey storeyes and lernt him how to play cards and Every thing= what was the ordes if he did wast the oners riggin and canvis and not know his dutey as long as he respected th Captain, this kind of work was going on dayley until we saw the first whale, witch was along in May whare was our Hero then= the man that was onley going to work when theire is whaling going on as he told the captain when he shipped him= we wer in to the S. W. of Cape Thadess when we saw the first whales. the ice was not veary heavey and what whale we saw was in the ice= but captain S [Simmons] would not go in with the Ship or send the boats in = we stood of and on the ice for 5 or 6 days with fine weather all sail out, Every time we stood in to the ice, we saw mor or les whales, but stil he would not venture, there was 



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onley tow or three other ships in site, finley we saw the Rain Deer take a whale in the Eadge of the ice = this caused sum merming amung us under Oficers witch was of cours over herd by the Captain and his compaion and the very next day we whent in to the ice with the ship. we had not been there long befor hear was whales clost to the ship, we lowerd awhay all four boats= as I was going on to a whale with a free sheet with a lit breezes & paddling with three paddles with the boat Steearer up to strike the whale and the Bow man standing by to shut a bom lance at the same time = I was working veary carful when Just befor I was near Enugh to strike I looked up and hear was the Captain compaion cuming up on the whales Eye on the wind hoving in with all five paddles, we strouck the whale but befor my boat line was out of the boat his ohrs wer locked in with mine, and when the whale started came near capsizing me = this all hapened with in a few ships lenth of the ship and Capt S= [Simmons] saw the hole of it, but how could he say anything arfter he had Discharged the man that had helped catch what oile we had in the ship, and he had took this man in his place thinking he had bettered himself; no, he would go a season with out geting a drop befor he would find falt with this man, or let the bublick know that he had been taking in, and then thare was all that respect that was a nother draw back we got the whale but our Hero was of no helpe to us what ever we took him alonge side and begun to cut him in = whare was the man then that was going to work onley when there was whaling going on, he stands like a man that is lost and wondring how he came there - Everey boadey he was going about there dutey as is Expected in sutch a cace when there is a whale to be cut in = heare he standes all drest out in long Shor Close with his clorth Gates on with patent leather toes and heles, with his arlms a kimbo which Captain S= [Simmons] is preforming his dutey - and the hole ships cumpney laughing at him, arfter the whale was cut in,
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at the time concequntley it put me and the fouth Mate in for every thing = we went about it with a wil = as we saw it was for our Entrist to get cleard up and get readey for a nother whale a quick as posable, where was our hero = he stands against the rale looking on with as mutch Qureostry aparentley as a man that had never saw anything of the kind befor = all he lacks is a Scatch book and then he would have Easley of been taken by a stranger for an Artese who was taken nots and Scatching the scenreay = if he had of acked like a man I could of shone him his Duty with all the Pleasure in the world = but arfter his puting on so meney frills and trying to make us all think he was a perfick horse - and runing to the Captain with evary thing that he herd about decks = I thought it would punish him a little to let him get along the best whay he could - when Ever it was my watch I ust to caron the work = and when the watch was out and the forth mate releved me I would pass the word along to him. and in that whay we managed to get along arfter a fasion = during the pair we got over 400 brlls and during that time this man was not so mutch account as one of our Green cnackers [Kanakas] that we got the last time in Port - Captain. S.[Simmons] over herd us under Oficers as wel as the crew talking about his usless Mate, and he would of wilingly of don his Dutey for him if that would of helped the case any = for he could see quit plain by this time that he had been badley taken in = but it would not do to acknoleg it arfter Discharging Mr. K. [Knowles] he tryed Eavery whay to make Chace apear as Mate. but it apeard the mor he tryed to help him the les he knowed. he warnted I should help him out of the semper[?] but he could not put on face Enugh to aske me, so he tryes one of his under handed Skeims, with the lollowing is one of them = we had a small Cask that was made on purtos[?] to put Sinders in, arfter we had been boyling two or three days and the arches had got chocked up I had the head taken out of the Sinder Cask and
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for it = Captain S= [Simmons] overherd my conversation with Mr. Streeter witch rather tuchet him to hear is compaion talked of in this maner in his preasence: when I came on deck arfter bereackfast he bust out like a thunder Storm on me. Sayes he Mr Strout what bisniss had you to take the head out of that cask with out my orders.. he could not look me in the face when he got this string off. or did he men what he said, he ment y dont you tel Mr Chacse [Chace] that it is customery to save the Sinders and that we have a cask to put them in = yes that was what he ment - he warnted I should put the words in Chaces Mouth and have it apear that he knowed his dutey = I told him veary colley that I had had that cask put in us on the same prncable that I did everything that belonged to the Tryworks = sutch as the Try-Pots = and the Mencer[?] Mersheen[?] on the Scrape[?] Tribes[?] = as thay were all uesd for there difrent purpinsives sutch as thay wer made for and as that cask had been in the ship for a Sinder Cask for the last tow years I could not see any pertickler harm in uesing it for what it was made for, thus Ended the cask scrape but not as Captain. S.[Simmons] antiscepated when he began it, for he had an idear that he was a going to give me a lecture. and that I would not dar open my mouth in the preasence of his big Mate that was bound to see him respected = when he found that had no Enpreeashon on me to that I. was determend not to tel his Mate his dutey = he tryed another plan. 



All this time his compaion is stating about with his Shor Close on and dowing what Ever the Captain seats lik at. as he has no Ider what to dow him self = it takes him the most of his time to keep his hair curled and his hands clen = one day he called me to diner. I wated about 15 ten minuts for him to wash up and turn his hair under. I went belo to dinner it was quit dark in the Cabin as the most of the deck lites wer cuvred up with cask= arfter I got seat down I saw that our Hero had not got along yet. as the same thing had hapend a good meney times befor during the voyage at sutch times when we wer to bissey to think of Digneyty = I wated a few 



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minuts = and then a thought struck me that it would look foolish in me to set and chue my fingers, and stil foolisher to get up from the table to look up the Captain compaion = so I helped myself and began Eaten my dinner = in about five minuts when I was about half throw in cumes our Hero looking as though he had Just cume off of the Barbers hands = or out of a Ban Box = and when he seats down the first thing he dos is to pass the Captain Eavery thing there is on the table in the whay of respect = by the time he gets thow with all that menuver I was throw Eating and about my work = whe Captain S [Simmons] came up arfter diner - he sayes to me right befor the ships cmpney = Mr Strout how did you com to set down to that table befor Mr Chace did = I told him the reason with a smile = when he busts out saying you know very well that we have had no Mate all the voyage: I then asked him if he had got one now all this time his big Mate stood with in a few feet of him = he stratened up his head and made an atemt to look me in the face= this proved a faleyer = he then looked down to his feet and finished his convasaion: he said Mr Strout I have turned over a New Lefe I and my first Oficers has got to be respected = this royled me a little I then told him if my maners wer not refined Enugh for them = and if that was all he warnted was him and his companion to Eat togeather that thay might and welcom for the future. so ended this Gam witch did not help his compaion case in the lest = I did not go to the table for a few days so one day arfter this as he was afrade that it would make a talk in amung the flet = he thought it best to get me to Eat with them again. so he sayes Mr Strout y dont you com down and Eat with me and Mr. C= [Chace] I told him that I had not com North on my Dignetey, that oil was the princlebey thing I was arfter and if I could not Eat with him and Mr. C= [Chace] with out disrespecting him and his first Oficer that I did not want to Eat with them atall = he then flu in a Peshion an alowed if I did not
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I whent to the table again = by this time he began to see that he had gorn to work the rong whay to get me to help him out with his know nothing Mate = when we wer readey to stow down the first lot of oil. Chase [Chace] whent in to the hold to stow it = captain S= [Simmons] tryed to show him the first day = but he soon com to the concluion that it would take him mor then one cruis to learn = arfter working all one day to dow about tow hours work = capt= S= [Simmons] came to me and spoke veary pleasantley and told me he warnted me to stow the Oil = the next day I whent in to the hold to stow it. Captain S [Simmons] put Mr. Streeter to look out for the Hatchwhay and start the Oil. whare was our man that was going to work onley when there was whaling going on = he was around the decks amung the men dowing what Eaver his under-Oficers might requirer of him. this is the man the Captain warnts respected, while we are taken Oil Chase [Chace] is a defrent man he dont pretend to give an order of any kind or raze his comanding voice in my whay. sum times he would pretend to be dowing sumthing when he thought the Captain was noticing him, and at sutch time it ust to take one good man to watch him to keep him from making work for the rest of us for he was Just as lkely to undew sum thing as he was to dow it = Captain S= [Simmons] tryed hard to have him apear as Mate: he would quit often give his order throw Chase [Chace] so as to keep up apearences= arfter the Oil was all stowed down and the deck cleard up and know likley would of geting any mor right a whay = Chace began to put on his Frills = the reason I say no likelihods of geting any mor is becaus Captain S= has got the idear in to his head that it would help his compaion case if he got a whale = and he apeares determend that he shall bring the Next whale to the ship = Captain S [Simmons] all on the former part of the voyage on the whale ground when there was whales, razed if there was a watch below = when the oficers came up to go in there boats he would all wayes tel
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yes Ser sayes Mr C= [Chace] all right lower awhay the boats = we lowered in this whay day arfter day but no whale cam then he got to loering our Hero down a lone and keeping the rest of us on board = things whent on in this whay for a while but no whale cam = this was bad work for a Captain to carey on as he was lousing as mutch as anyone. but it apeard he was dertermend his compaion should Eathe bring the next whale or we should get no mor to the Ship = this kind of work caursed a gradle of dissatisfacion as there was other Ships in site taken oil Eavery day =



Captain  S= [Simmons] and our Hero was thicker then Ever arfter we lorst run of the whales, and there was know whaling going on, by this time Chace was looked upon by the hol ships cumpney a an Emposerter who was in a good mans place and Robeing the Oners as wel as the rest of us = he would quit often try to fors me in to a convasaion with him wich was veary disagreable to me when I knowed he was robing me at the same time and was no bisniss on board the ship what ever. one day he says to me you whalemen or a Joley set. that is the reaso I like to be amung you = but Says he there is onley tow parts of whaling that I can take any entrest in that is Seeing of them Catch them and Spending the money. this he thought was smart = I gave him sum pretey broad hints sum times about what I thought of the careons on board = and gave him to under stand that things hat got to take a change befor long.. he of cours was going to have that change in his faver if it was a posable thing, so throw sum meanes or rather he got the Captain down on me in good Ernest so he did not Even speak to me about Ships dutey= things whent on in this whay a spel = we had saw no whales for sum time = we had been working up towards Plover Bay where the Captain apeared veary anches to get to trade his Rum for Whale Bone and to see his Ladey love and her Off-Spring = we Anchord in the Outer bay the 23rd of June {1861/06/23} = and befor the ship had Stratend her Chane = Capt- S= [Simmons] was in to a boat and bound ashor arfter his ladey = he brought her on board with all the rest of the famley = there was quit a number of Ships off the Bay and amung the 



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croud there was one Captain who had his wife with him, Captain S= [Simmons] not having courage Enugh to carey on his unmanley princable be for all the other ships = he was forst to go against the Dockters Orders and take to the Bottle for Dutch courage = and he kept his courage up pretey wel while we lay hear= the iner bay had not brok up yet= and the outer bay was ful of scatring ice = we got of sum warter witch was all he had for an Excuse for cuming in hear= while we wer geting off water there was a number of whales com in the Bay= sum of the ships got whales others had there boats in chacee we had men at the mast head on the lookout = arfter the warter was on board our Hero takes his boat without line or craft and a onley four men leving his boatsteearer on board = goes on board of a trader to spend the after noon = the next day we lowerd all four boats and went a prospecting. all this time Captain S= [Simmons] was Labering heavey under the Enfluance of the bottle= I was off that Night until dark chaceing whales = when I got on board = I found that our Hero had give up the chace shortley arfter he lowered and had com back to the ship, left a part of the boat crew and had gorn on board of one of the traders and got sum licker to go on Shor to see the girlls = Capt= S [Simmons] of cours had no obgecttion to all of that preformenc how could he when he was laying back half drunk with his ladey love= and there was all the respect Mr C= [Chace] was showing him = the rest of the ships finley cleard out and as the most of them knowed what we wer laying for= Captain S.[Simmons] thought he had better go or have an excuse for laying hear= so he told sum of the other Captains that the Oil leaked and that he should stop a few days and brake out and cooper. I was very confedant that the Oil did not leak an under stood the game but I suposed he would be satesfied when we got sum of it out and found it all in good condition = I told him I did not think the oil leaked= and gave him to under stand that I was not Green or
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the Traders to hide his face for he was a shamed of that Job = I did not mind laying hear for I was pretey shor there would be a bodey of whales along in a few days = for the Natives allwayes told us that the ships got North befor the whales did= and as the bodey of whales had not gon by yet I was perfickley willing to lay there a few days = but I did not like the idear of dowing usless work for the sake of filing out the Ships Log Book and to acomadate the Capt= there was sum grouling about that breaking out scrape = witch the Captains compaion over herd witch of cours out of respect to the captin he told him all about = and not for geting to put me in to the head of it = as that would be likley to put a nother feather in his cap and at the same time help the game out he was trying to play on me to the Captain, as Captain. S= [Simmons] was a Church Member when we saild from home and was afrade this would get noyesed about = he sent his Ladey love on shor and we saild the next morning = the veary day we whent out the John Holand came in, and in a few days the body of whales came North took a surcle in the bay = She got five large whale in four days = at the same time when she was takeing them we layed becalmed with in 40 Miles, of her. We nocked around in the Straes a spel saw a scatring whale now and then = and would of got one or tow if Captain S= [Simmons] had not Encested upon having his compaion bring the next one to the ship = it apeard he would rather go with out a whale then to have one of us under Oficers bring it to the ship. we left whales in the Straits and went upt to East Cape to have a time. we had been in cumpney with the Rain Deer up to this time and she had taken Eight Whales we had a chance to have got as maney and would with out a dout if it had not been for that Ideare that Captain S= [Simmons] got in to his head that his compaion must catch the next whale.



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what the object was for us to go there with out it was to take a chance with the Traders = as the Capain had got sum of his rum left = he offten ust to tell Mr K [Knowles] that he had Made one voyage for the oners and that he was going this one for himself. he got 1000 pounds of bon in Plover Bay. we went from East Cape acrost the Straits to help pass awhay the time we saw whales going acrost but did not stop, our Excuse to this place was to get wood = when we got of Port Clearence [Port Clarence] we found we could not get in to the bech for the ice we lay there four of 5 days trading with the Natives = the curent was runing four of five not and the drift ice was sum what heavey witch was constantley coming down on the ship witch don her a concedrable dammeg = in the whay of nocking off coopper and sheething = we finley left with out any wood and whent back to East Cape = we came to amung the same flet that we left there with an adeshion of to or thre mor ships = Captain S= [Simmons] not warnting it to apeare as thow he was there a trading = keepes tow men at the Marst head for a blind = while we wer layin there we kept Marst heads Night and day and stood our reaugler sea watches = we lay hear a week this time = and I was not out of the ship while we lay there = when there was no liklehoods of trade Capt S= [Simmons] would take a half a Dosen bottles of licker on shor to see the gerlls = at the same time his compaion would be of on a cruise of his own = with out any craft in his boat Steearer = he would petend to go a guning = but he genreley featched up amung the Natives where he ust to maneg to Emtey his Pouder Flask bying rum from the Natives, and by the time he got to the ship again he would be good and Drunk with his Gun brok and sum of his boats crew cripled = arfter a while thay ust to bothe go in one boat = there was a curent hear and Eaver now and then a feld of ice would come down a [???] of the ship and make aorfull work on the ships bow in the whay of reping off sheathing and coopper= we saw no
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to Port Clearence the ice by this time was brok up so we could get in to the bech.



The Captain and his compaion had been mor on there Dignetey for the last tow weeks then ever and wer geting worse Eavery day. thay had got the idear into there heads that thay wer the onley tow men in the ship of any acount what Ever = out of 14 teen years that I had been in the whaling bisness. I had never seen sutch work as had been carid on on board of this ship for the last mounth. I never had been with aman or herd of one that could act the Hog Equal to Capt= S= [Simmons] he had shoed it a number of time on the voyag, but for the last Mounth he had com right out bold as the wild one of the Forest, witch the following is a scatch of --

he bought a Deer in Plover Bay = witch he Eat all to his own check- he ust to have it cooked and put on to the table beside his plate witch was right under my nose = witch was not veray agreable = at this time when he was having his Deer met broyeld in butter we wer living porer then I Eaver lived afore in a ships Cabin = sum times he would have a pece of it rosted = he would set down Carve off what he warnted an pass it to the Stuard and tel him save that for his super = right befor all his Oficers, as his comaion did not kare nothing about it he thought it was all right = as the under Oficers wer no acount what Ever = he got a box of Eggs out of a ship and sum freash Pork and for about tow weekes there was a dish of ham and Eggs smoking up under my nose reagler Eavery mel = he might of had all thes things and welcom if he had kept them out from under my nose,, and looked out that there was sum thing cooked for his Oficers, this playing the Hog as bold as this was sum thing I was not ust to not Eaven with him until this cruise for allwayes on the former part of the voyage when he warnted to play hog, he genreley Stowed him self awhay in the arfter Cabin = upon one acation he asked the Stoward what he had for his diner the Stoward told him he did not no as the freash 



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was all gorne = the Captain asked him if he had got all the met off of them bones that he could get off with a Sharp knife = and if he head that he might make a soup out of them = this Soup was made for the benefet of his oficers as wel as himself. so thay might Enduleg in a freash mess. if any one would of told me that I could put up with what I have put up with I should of been supriozed = what caps all is one day Chaces as the cheek to ask me how it was I did not apear towardes him as I did when he first came on board = I told him the reason and Just what I thought of him and the trasactions sence he had been on board. I told him was no use for me to pretend to like him when I hated the site of him, and the tow face work he was caring on and that I would be mutch oblige to him to keep him self to him self as far a ships dutey would premet, he of cours out of respect to the Captain told him of this afair. Captain S [Simmons] thought of cours he had been Ensulted to have his compaion talked to in that whay, and it apeared as though he had hit Just the idear to settle the thing in there faver, so he thought if he quareled with me it would make matters better for his compaion. 

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as there was nothing in the line of Ships Dutey that he could find falt with me about,, he took a plan that was laughable to thenk of, as we all noed ware he Sprung from and whare he was brought up, I allwayes careid my pocket Kanchef[?] in my coat when I was on deck and allways when I came down the cabin to my mels took my Jacket off and hung it up in my state rome. and take the Kleckep[?] out of my Pocket and wipe my nose in my State rome befor I went out to the table. witch I should of called manorers in any whit man. it cam Just as natural for me to take my Khachef[?] out of my coat befor going to the table as it did for me to take my hat off, as whaler tables seldom sports a Nap Kin or finger cups. I had a bad coald about this time and concequincley made sum noyes when blowing my nose in my rom, one day when I was



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coming out of my room to Diner Captain S= [Simmons] lookes up but not towardes me and sayes Mr Strout - I wish your would blow your nose on Deck. this rather took me aback, but I knowed in an istent what it was don for. it was and awrfull strugle with me for a momint to keep from coming right out on him. but I guvend my Pashion and all I said to him was. that I had got a bad coald and that I shuld blow my nose when it warnted blowing. and that I thought it was maners in any man to blow his nose befor coming to the table, this Ended the convasion .. but this Stuck in my crop, at the same time I was well awhare what it was don for.  Captin S= [Simmons] had got the idear in to his head that if he apeard to be down on me that I would do his compaion Dutey and help him get out of the Scrape he had got into by shipping this man for the sake of geting on good turmes with him. but he was misstaken in his man = for I never had been in the habet of dowing bisness in this whay. if he head come to me like a man and acknoleged that he had been bet and asked me to of don the mates dutey = and not Encuraged Chace in his Frills that he was puting on = I would of don it with all the pleasure in the world. I put up with both of thes men as long as I posable could stand the presure. I then spok to Captain S [Simmons] an told him if things was going on in the same stil the rest of the season as thay had been going that I should haf to Sash bisniss. that if he was going to uphold that man his rasealety that I could not dow any mor Dutey under him. he said he thought it was his dutey to up hold him. I warnted to end convasation with as few words as posable. so I mealey repeted to him that I could not dow any mor Dutey under Chaes. he then tryed to friten me with ions I see then at once I had got to enter in to convasion. I then told him if he thought that his oners or any law would Justeyfy him in puting me in ions for refuesing Dutey under that man arfter what damage he had been to all corncerned to asked his own pleasure about it,
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as Captain S= [Simmons] and I had never been intermet all the voyage he had had no idear who he had got to deal with, when I began to talk to him he droped his head in his Shert bosem where he kept it until I finished my convasion witch lasted over tow hours when he found I was man that could not be friting by his threts, he colled right off and cumenced half crying, teling me that I was going to hert my self as wel as him by taking this step. I told him that I did not warnt to hert him or any one concerned in the ship. but if he encested on upholding that man, under the preasent Surcumstances I should not dow any mor dutey under him, but if we saw whales I would go in my boat and dow my best for the benifet of all concerned, until sutch times as I could make a change with sum other Oficer on board of sum other Ship. but if no sutch Chance Should turn up. and he stil Ensisted upon up holding this Man that I was wiling to sackrefize my seasons work and take Passage in sum other Ship = he then alowed that was all fair Enugh but it would not look well. I told him that was all I had to say = and left him and whent to my rom as I left him I told him that I had onley acted for my self and that I had not tryed to Enfluance anyone Eals = he then called the rest of his under Oficers down the cabin and had a taclk with them = thay told him that thay though he was acting veary rong by upholding Chase [Chace] arfter what dameg he had been to the ship and all concerned = he then alowed that Mr Chase [Chace] suted him = but his under Oficers soon taclked him out of that = thay asked him if he could tell them whare in he had been of the smallest partickel of benifet to the Ship on the voyage sence he had been on board. he soon found that arugement would not do with them = he then onend all up and alowed that he had been badley beet by this Chase [Chace] but that he had got him and that he had got to put up with 



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him. he asked them if thay was wiling to do dutey under Mr C. [Chace] thay said they would rather not = as he was not a caple man and was onley a bother and in the whay when there was any thing to be don = thay said thay was wiling to dew dutey with out him and that thay thought we should geat mor oil with out him = Captain S [Simmons] then alowed befor he would let him go out of the ship or off dutey he would put back to the Islands first = the oficers did not like to give the season up as thay had made so fair a begining = so thay told the Captain thay would go to there dutey on condision that Chace should not speak to them any whay shape or fashion = but the first time he played any of his tricks on them that thay would nock off too - he was quite adefrent man arfter this. he never gave one of them a order during the rest of the Season = as Captain S. [Simmons] never sayed any thing mor about my leaving the ship I made up my mind to stop in her and take notes = we saild from Port Clearance [Port Clarence] Bound North = on the 28th of July {1861/07/28} we wer on the compas ground saw whales Eavery day for 5 or 6 days lowered Eavery day with out cuccess left there and went up of Cap Lisbon, [Cape Lisbon] saw a few whales there but did not stop. whent up of Icy Cape saw plentey of whales but did not stop came back to Lisbon and had a Game with tow or three ships = while we wer about hear theare was any quarnetay of Ducks around Eavery day we had from 75 to a 100 of them all dreast hanging up under the house = but thay wer cooked one to time for the Captain = when thay ust to go down to the table, there would be one Duck all stufed and rosted and seat along side of the Captain plate = he would seat down and calf off a wing and a leag deg out sum stufing and pass the rest to the Stuard and tell him to save that for his supper = all this time his officers would be seating, looking on with theare mouths runing warter = arfer Captain S. [Simmons] had got throw =



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Carving and put himself in atude for action he would look up and say help your self Mr Chace, sum one might ask what to = I will tell you = as long as we had Potaters in the Ship we ust to have what the Salors call a Scauce[?] reagular three times a day = our therd mate had a nother Name for it = he ust to call it Drownded Potaters = if the Ducks had been a scase article in thes parts no one would of sead a word about the Captain having a Duck to his own cheek = but thay wer not scarce for a boat could lower down any time and ject 40 or 50 of them in a short time = and no one would of Eaver said a word a bout the Scauce[?] if we had not seen and knowen that there was other whayes to cook them = potaters go veary wel in this whay once and a while = but when you com to have Scause[?] for a seadey diet = it is rather hard to take =



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cuming - Mr C [Chace] geathered up all the boans vearey carfull and makes shor thay ar taken car of by throwing them overboard himself = so as not to leve any trace of the missing Duck = as he was serten to be mist when the Captain got on board as he made practese of counting them over five or six times a day -- at the same time Mr C [Chace] was having his luck out the under Oficers where rosting Pork on sticks befor the Galey firer = so I bleve Eavery boday had a square meal that day = when the Captain got on board it was amusing to see him go strait to the Poop to count his ducks = and stil mor amuesing to see his compion peacking around the corner of the house to see what kind of a face his Duck Eating Supearer was going to put on when he found the Duck missing = arfter counting them over twice he lookes at the Stuard harlf crying with a shake of his head = and says to him "wheare" is that "Duck" the stuard of cours teles him he dont know - the captain did not hardly know who to lay it to but of course the idear had never com into his head that his compaion would do sutch a thing = no that could not be where he had allwayes paid him so mutch respect = and of cours no one Else would dare to do sutch a thing but that Mutinear = and of corse he did not Eat it raw = and the Stuard must of had a hand in it = captain S= [Simmons] sayes all this to his compaion Mr. C. = [Chace] who was allwayes on hand at sutch a time = wel he sayes Captain to my sertin knollege that man has been leving better sence he has been off Dutey then you have = that was Just as true as Gospel but the Grand question was who don the cooking and wated upon him = the Captain made up this mind he would find out = so he began by threating the Stuard teling him he would put him in the Riggin and flog him if he did not own up = but all in vain the Suard told him he knowed nothing about it = Captain S= [Simmons] dertemend to find out if Mr C [Chace] statement was tru and if so 



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thay wer going to Skin the Stuard alive = and throw there talk and threats thay had the Por fello badley friting = Captain S= [Simmons] for about tow weeks arfer this reagular he stood by the Galey dor and all cuverd dishes as thay past muster had to be ucuverd for his Enspection = he went without his own grub on purpurs to watch the Galey = and at the same he was watching the Galey I was Eating and Drinking the best the Ship could aford = and what [???] all my Grub was all cooked befor his was Eavery day. he finley gave up in disspare = he then got his compaion to go around amung the Pouter Gueses and offer a reward of tobacker to any of them that could give him any acount about what was going on between me and the other oficers for by this time he had began to mistrust that thay had a hand in it = thay finley had to give it up = Captain S= [Simmons] Shortley arfer this complained of being Sick = he had a book called the Famley Fersistion = witch he ust to spend a grate part of his time in hunting out the Sintons of the Defrent complaints witch he thought he had = or those witch compaird the best with the complaint witch he happend to have = one day arfter a long studay in this Book he came out on deck looking rather pail for a man of his complection = he goes to Mr Streeter and asks him if he under Stands Navagation = Mr S. [Streeter] told him he did witch apeard to releve him = he then told Mr. S. [Streeter] that he thought he would hafto take the ship to the Islands = for he had Just been looking over his Book and as near as he could under Stand it he had got but a few days longer to live = it might be thought veary strainge how Captain S= [Simmons] should go to the Fourth Mate for a Navagater where there was a [???] Mate on board = but stil Stringer it might apear that his [???] Mate know nothing about sutch maters as the onley parte of the Mates Dutey he had 



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Ever learned was to respect the Captain = this made quit a laugh amung the boys = when thay herd that the Captain had made up his mind to die = and Engaged the Forth Mate in his place = in les then tow hours arfter all this he was driving a bargan with sum Natives witch came on board from Ice Cape for whale Bon and ivery and fures = weather he was going to take thes things with him or not I could not say = but I rather gues that he would if sum one would lay a book in his whay that would give him any acount of any one that had got throu into the other world with there lugeg = weather the man had forgot his Days wer Numbered or not I cant say but in les then four hours arfter this, he was talking with the fouth Mate about stoping in Plover bay until November in the Fall = as he thought there would be a chance for Oil = meaning Pinan on the same day all this happend he spoke a Ship and when the captain haild him as is custemery and Enquierd arfter his health = his arncer was quit wel I thank you = and when the Captain asked him on board. with out arncing he Orderd the Starbord boat cleard awhay = for a Game,, on the stranth of this gam Captain S= [Simmons] finds out there is a Frinch Ship on the Ground that has got a Doctor on board = he thought if he could onley fall in with him there might be sum chance for him yeat = there was plentey of whales around at this time but he took no notice of them whatever = we left them and whent to the Southward to find the Freanch man = Captain S= [Simmons] went on board and consulted the Doctor = who told him there was nothing duangerrus about his complaint and if he left off Drinking wiskey he stood a chance to live to be a veary old man = witch pleased him might erley[?] = as quick as he got on board he Orderd the Stuard to Cook a mess of them Ducks for the Oficers = we kept in comppaney with the French man and Gamed 



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with her reauglar Eavery day = both working North. Captain S= [Simmons] arfter he found out he was not going to die as soon as he Expected he had a grat dezier to go around Point Bearer = witch could not of been for whales for there was plentey of them were we was off Icey Cape = arfter leving the whales and steareing North all one day without seeing any thing but ice and plentey of that Captain S [Simmons] under took to tack ship again to the South but the French man soon brought him around again on the Northan tack by runing his colors up and down = one day whilst he was on one of his games there was quit a number of whales clost to the Ship = it was a beautifull day and I don think I saw a better chance for a whale in my life = Mr C [Chace] amuesd himself by walking from one side of the Deck to the other looking at them = he did not offer to lower for them and the reason he gave for it was that the Captain had not left any orders to that Efect and a nother thing he did not no weather it was castomarey or not = this is our clipper Mate =



 August the 22nt 1861 {1861/08/22}

plentey of whales around = had a strong breezes from the North = Captain S= [Simmons] goes against the Docters Orders = puts all sail on the ship runing around amung the whales with out lowering = the French man get a whale = 4 other ships in Sight all a boyling. by thes time Eavery bordie[?] was geeting discouraged on the 23rd {1861/08/23} we ran close in under icey Cape. any quarnetey of whales around lowerd the boats with out cuccess = strong curant seating to the Northward and Eastward = thare was a block of ice closeing on the Cape = plentey of whales along side near Enugh to strike from the ship = August 24th {1861/08/24} plentey of whales about the ship lowered and Mr Streeter the 4th Mate got one to the ship --



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Stood in under the land and cut him in - arfter the whale was cut in = Captain S= [Simmons] got the ship under whay and with Dutch carage up he ran the Ship in to the onley cake of Ice there was with in tow miles of her and stove a hold in her about the size of 9 timbers and five planks = and veary near shuck the mast out of her = and never so mutch as tryed the Pomps un til the next day = and then thay would never of thought of it if the Stearage Boy had not discoverd that the ship was a filing fast and told me of it. I went to Captain S [Simmons] and told him if thay could spar time it would be a good idea to rig the Pumps = when he cam to look down the Hatchwhay an see the watter he began to cry as unsuall = and look around to see if he could see anyboday to give over his charge to - he had the colares seat half mast for the Frinch man = (how) who soon cam to his relefe he sent three boats crewes and with baling and Pumping about three hours we got three her free = I turned to until the watter was all out of her = the Frinch Captain and the carpender soon stoped the leak by taring up the sealing and cuting awhay three of the timbers and cuvring the princeble part of the leak with tarde oakum and blankets = and batend it over that with boards = August the 27th {1861/08/27} put off to the South with a freash breezes from the North. saw plentey of whales = lufet[?] to and Mr. Streeter brought a nother whale to the ship. the weather continued good for three or four dayes and betwen Mr Streeter and Mr Carling thay got three mor whales making five since I went of Duty witch made up about 800 all togeather this seaso witch was a mightey small part to what we ought to of taken if we had had a Mate or been with out one all togeather for as I have stated befor this Man Chace was 



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mor in the whay then he was good = whilst taken them five whales he maneged to shut a bum lance throw his foot and throw the bottom of the Boat = Captain. S= [Simmons] by this time was fairly disgustard with him himself but he dont like to own it = when ever he has any orders to give about caring on the work he all wayes gives them to Mr Streeter = and he had to carey on the work whilst thay was takeing car of the Oil = this man Chase [Chace] that was looking out for me to see that I was respected when we first left Port could not speak to the smalest boy in the Ship with out geting insulted = if there was sutch a thing as insulting sutch a man of his Stamp.



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Had a strong breeze from the South ran in to the North of Icey Cap and Anchord and stowed the Oil down = and whil this work was going on any one to of seen our cliper Mate standing around would of took him for one of Frank Lestleyes or Harpers Arther[?] taking Scatches = Captain S= [Simmons] by this time seldom speaks to him = but as he has sead so mutch in his faver around amung the Ships and has up held him all the Season he dar not find falt with him now = on the night of the forth we got under whay and stood off Shor wind stil blowing strong from the South = betwen 11 and 12 P.M. the Frinch man whilst standing on Shor ran ashor about 20 miles to the North of Point Franklin = at the same time the Cleone was on the off shor tack and ran into a field of ice there was a heavey see on at the time and the ship labord hard til she worked into it a peas = about the time she got into it it would of pusaled a smart man to of told who was Captain and who was mates = for Eavery bodey was giving Oorders and contradicting outhers =



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arfter a while thay came to a Point and let go an Anchor and the chain parted during the Night= but luck was on the Cliones [Cleone] side at day lit we found that she had worked into the ice about a mile during the Night. with the wind that by this time was blowing a freash gale was stil driving her in to it. and with the curant seating to the N.E. and the wind to the South she would of soon found a resting place up amung the rect Explorers in the N.W. Passage or gon throu to Green Land = but as I said befor Luck favered us and the wind shifted around to the N.W. and she came out all right again.. Stood in under the land and found the wind blowing along shor and anchord again and Picked up the crew of the Frinchman thay wer all saved but one man = this man must of Drounded in his berth as he was sick and could not help himself = it blowed a gale from the Southard on the 5th and 6th {1861/09/05} {1861/09/06} we laid to Anchor under the land about a mile from the beech = felds of ice going at the rate of five nos to the North sum times Pasing with in a quarter of a mile of us =



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Modrated from the South and a lit breezes sprung up from the North got under whay and Scuared for the rect witch was to the South of where we lay = razed a sail witch turnd out to be the Montreall of New Bedford Captain Soul who had taken 2000 brlls about there and was boyling them = we Anchord clost to the Rect and the three Captains whent in with plentey of men to se if thay could not save sum Grub to feed the Frinch men on = Captain S= [Simmons] when he left the ship he took Mr. Streeter and Carling along with him and left the Ship in Charge of Mr Chase= [Chace] and befor Captain S.. [Simmons]



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farley out of sight he cleares awhay a boat and goes on board the Montreall and gets good and Drunk and then Starts for the rect to see what the site was for Plunder. while he was on this tourer the boats was coming from the rect loded with Brandey and hard Bread = and when the Boyes got the Licker on Deck and found there was no one to look out for it thay was all gooing in for a good time and I guse thay would of had one if I had not talked them out of it = Captain S= [Simmons] apeard to be suprized when he saw his smart Mate Stegring Drunk about the bech arfter leveing him in Charge of the ship when he left her in the Morning and teling about unloading the boats and so fourth when Chase [Chace] landed he had the Drunking hecups and when Captain S [Simmons] asked him what he had com on shor for = he said he -- hic - thought - hic - hick - he would com - hic - to - hic - to see what - hic = he could - hic - save = Captain S [Simmons] told him to take in a few things that he and the French captain had picked up and go right on board again = and amung the things witch he gave him to carey off was a keg of Rum Cherreys that the French man had luged about a mile alond the bech, when Chase [Chace] got out clear of the Bech he told the Boats crew to heve up and he stove the head of this Keg in and thay had a tuck out arfter he had Eat as menay as he could he told one of the Boats crew when thay got on board to tak that Keg in to the For Castle and take care of it that he could use out of it. and he should want him to fill a bottle up out of it once and a while for him = when thay got on board the man took the Chereyes forward as he had been told = and Mr C [Chace] whent and turned in as he was so Drunk he could not Stand = Captain S= arived



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Shortley arfer wards but he made no Enquiries arfter his smart Mate = we made sail bound for the South that Arter non = the Priceble things saved from the Rect was three Cask of Bread and six of Brandey and tow of whine. as the french man had plentey of licker on board when she went on shor there was plentey of it nocking about the Bech sum of the Boyes maneged to fill up the Boats kegs and thay lasted for or five dayes arfter leving the rect = and Eaver bodey that felt Enclined to Drink kept about half shot all the time and Mr C [Chace] maneged to keep good and Drunk = Captain S [Simmons] arfter Chase [Chace] got soberd up a bit took him down in to the Arfter Cabin and betwen the tow Captains thay gave him a talking to and tryed to find out whare he got his licker from = arfter Eavery bodey began to Sober up and things got stratind a little the French Captain began to make Enquyries arfter his Keg of Cherreys, he asked Chace if he brought them on board. O yes Captin there all right the Stuard must of taken care of them = arfter looking all over the cabin for them with out cuccess = thay com to the conclution that sum of the men must of stolden them = Chace of cours Joyned in with them on that = and Sayes yes Captain thay must of taken it = when he saw them was going to be truble about it and knowing that the man would blow on him be for he would be Punished = he goes Forward to the For Scuttle and wispers down to the man that he gave the Keg to to com up a minute that he wanted to see him - when the man cam up he asked him if there was any thing left in that Keg the man told him there was nothing left but the Cherreys and that he had Bottled off all the licker an gave it to him = well says Chace sit wispering fetch us up the Keg 



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Chace takes the Keg arfter to the tow Captains on the quarter Deck and halls on a face to sut the words and Sayes hear it is Captain I thought I could catch the theaf sum of the men hapning to over hear this tells the man that had taken care of the keg for Chace and the man came arft and gave the two Captains a new Storey of the Keg right befor Mr C= [Chace] and I beleve that was the first and onley time that he was ever known to look ashamed = this is onley a small part of his meanness. Sep the 8th {1861/09/08} Bound South.



Sep the 9th {1861/09/09} another Grand Drunk --

there was plentey of Sperm Oil nocking about on the beach and good weather to of got it off but thay did not want to stop for it but arfter runing South about fortey miles thay luft to to catch a whale and thay had no cask sent up to put the Oil in = sum of the Drunking partey did not think that was a senceble move at all and took it in to there heads that if thay could not stop for Sperm oil that was all in cask that it was no ues to stop and try to catch a whale when thay had no cask to put him in. so whilst the tow Captains was walking the house arft thay orderd the Ship kept South and made sail on there own hook, this is a sampil of the displen that Captain S. [Simmons] was capable of keeping on board of a ship. Sep the 9th {1861/09/09} stil bound south under short sail with fine weather with a freash breeze from the North - saw plentey of whales but did not lower on acount of the French mans brandey being Strong = Captain S= [Simmons] takes his smart Mate in to the Arfter Cabin again and tryes to - Moralise him - saw plentey of whales on the 10th {1861/09/10} and 11th {1861/09/11} but did not lower. Gamed with the Magnolia Captain Pierce lacking one whale of being full = Sep the 12th {1861/09/12} bloing a gail from the N.E. saw plentey of whales 



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but did not lower for them = siled Cape Lisbon on 13th {1861/09/13} and took our Departure for the Straits -

Sep the 16th {1861/09/16} came throw Bearing Straits [Bering Straits]and on the 17th {1861/09/17} had fine weather and a calm. Anchord 15 teen Miles East of Plover Bay = 10 sail in site = had a Genral Gam all around. I had a old ship Mate come to see me. plentey of Natives on board = Sep the 18th {1861/09/18} got under whay and went in to Plover bay with a light breezes from the N.N.W. tow Brigs beloning to Honolulu and the Ship Adeline of New Bedford Encumpney --



Pinu the.. Tosale[?] Tope[?]

Before the Chain was fairley straitend when the Anchor was let go - Capain S [Simmons] was on the lookout for his Gil[?] Pozey[?] and the Baby = when the Natives began to come off & he found she was not amung them he had a boat cleard a whay and he whent on shor him self to convey her off = it would of been a buefull site for Mrs Simons No 1 to have seen them laying off in the sturn of the boat togeather = Captain S. [Simmons] holding the Babey = from the time she came on board til she went on shor again witch was not until the ship saild Captain S= [Simmons] was apearentley half Crazey = all the Fluckes and Fins from the five whales that had been taken off Icey Cape had been cut up and saved = and it took him and his Father & Lower all the first day to geet them on Shor I should think speaking with in bounds that if the Fluckes and bluber had been boyeld out it would of made from 25 to 30 brlls of oil = this was paying rather dear for his Whife for one of the Natives could of bought her for half that value = Sep the 19th {1861/09/19} comenced work on the ship to heve her down to pach her up a little on the out side where she was stove. on the 20th {1861/09/20} the Thomas Dickason of New Bedford came in = on the 21st {1861/09/21} righted the Ship up an began Stowing back = the B.K. Coral Captain Sisson came in to stop the Winter. she took up her winter quarters and began to send down there spares and get reagey for the 



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Coald weather witch was clost at hand = there was sum tow or three other ships com in whilst we wer laying hear makeing quit a fleet all togeather, and one of them the Captain had his Famley with him and it was amuesing to see the Noble Comander of the Pleasure yatck Cleone with his Tasell[?] top and babey puling throw the fleet = and the spi Gleses Pointed from the hole fleet to geet a Glimce of his Native Gill Pozey = and to see if the Child had any rezemblence to its Farther = as regardes to the ficxing of the ship he had nothing to dew with it what Ever - his under Oficers and the Carpender fixet it to sut there own fancey the onley thing that apeard to truble him was that thay had got don to quick = as he was afrade it would be said that he had kept the ship there on his Famleyes acount. Chace his Smart Mate he was nocking about Decks with the men dowing what Ever the under Oficers hapened to seet the men at = Sep 23rd {1861/09/23} Eavery thing was stowed back and the ship readey for see with the Exceptions of geeting off a raft of water witch was got of the Next day =



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Sep the 24th {1861/09/24} three boats started with a raft of cask acrost the Bay for water = Our smart mate cleares awhay a boat and goes around amung the fleet trying to get Steam up, taking a drink whare Eaver he can geat one and not stoping long if thay did not hall there bottle out, arfter taken the rounds amung the fleet he he comes on board tow therds drunk and about the time the boats are coming with the warter he insted of geeting a tackle up to hoist it in with, takes a lot of rum in bottles on a lot of percurtion Caps and goes on Shor to the Settlement to see the Girls, and when the under-Oficers got on board thay had to clear up the Decks and geet the takle up themselfs. --



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 Mr C [Chace] convesation with the Captain befor going on shor. he sayes to the Captain. I Should like to go on Shor a while. the Captain tryed to talk him out of it but that would not go down he begins with saying to Capt. S. [Simmons] you know Captain your one Engoying yourself and having a good time. your have got your women and all thes Sorts of things and I dont think you had ought to have any objection to my having a little bit of a time as wel as yourself. Captin. S. [Simmons] stands like a post listin to it all with out making him any arncer or with out saying a word = Chace seeing he had got him all right and that he was a frade he would blo on him if he did not Endulge him he consents to his going on shor. then Chace puts in saying Captain cant you let us have a few bottles of Rum and one thing and another, in the whay of trade. as he wanted to go see the Girls and that there was no ues of going without he had sum Rum to get them Drunk with. this string was got off with a shower of smiles calling him Captain at Eavery other word with was mor then he could stand, and then refuze him. and of cours he consented and gave him the Rum and a lot of caps. and Mr. C. [Chace] was [???] drunk on Shor travling from one hut to on nother with the Boat Crew falowing him about with his Rum. whilst the rest of the Ships compney was working like Dogs to geat the warter on board so as to be readey for sea as the whaling season was over and it was time to think about geating South. Rum being to a Discount on shor as there had been so meney traders I bleve he did not make out veary well trading it off with the Natives so he drank it him self and when he cam on board he was about readey to be layed out. he was cuved with hairs from head to fot wheare he had been lounging about on the deer skins in the huts. this is the man Captain S [Simmons] wanted me to respect as first oficer of the Cleone,



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Still laying in Plover Bay Sep the 25th 1861 {1861/09/25} the Ship all ready for sea and fine breezes to go out with. witch was fair. but Captain. S. [Simmons] Excues for not going was that he thought it was a head wing out side. witch I supoes was put in the Log Book = but he stil thought he was doing rong so to try to make him self good he had the crew kept at work at usles work for the sake of detaineing the Ship and to fil up the Ships log Book. thinking it would make himself good in the Eyes of the public = he has got and idear that his with Mr. C. [Chace] word, is beater and would go further than the hole Sips compneys would on Othe. there was a Diner giveing on board of Each one of a serten lot of ships laying hear for the Captains and in orrder to have a turn all around it took fore or five days. Captain S. [Simmons] fed the crew well and alowed them a grate meney little priveleges in order to keeping them from Grumbling. for things had got along so far that the men did not make any bones of of Expressing there sentements anywhere about Decks in the preasence of the Captain or his compaion.- when Eaver Mr C= [Chace] gave and order ten chances to one if anyone would notic him and if thay did it would onley be to laugh at him. quit often he would haf to cox them if he warnted them to do the most trefling thing. and then hafto dew it himself. if he knew how or let it be undon until one of his under Oficer had it don. for it was of know ues for him to tel them to dew any thing for thay would pay no atention to him whatever. thay have not Spoke to him Since I have been off Dutey = but sence the Frinch Captain has been on board and Captain S. [Simmons] has not been so mutch in warnt of a compaion he has trid to get on a yarn with them quit often. but it was all of no ues for thay never noticed him whatever, the French men about all left us and went on board of other ships. but the Captain and Doctor took passeg with us to the Islands and tow men,



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Stil laying in Plover Bay Sep the 27th 1861 {1861/09/27} the Captain payes a large adetition to the mareg fee for his Native wife. to day his Father in Law took quit a cargo on shor in the shape of tonid[?] witch I wil give an acount of. ther was one cask of licker a number of booxes of Tobacker and tow bunches of Drawing Knives and Hand Servers[?] and other small parsles to numeres to mention. the hol I should think would amount to three or fore 100 Dolers - witch I would say was paying rather dear for his wistle.

 Sep the 29th {1861/09/29} got under whay with the wind from the East = Oct the 5 {1861/10/05} came through the Fox Islands = about the 7th {1861/10/07} we had heavey weather the Captain told Mr C [Chace] to take in the Wast[?] and Bow boats and arfter looking at him a good houre and seeing him trying to find out by the Formast Hands how to do it he turnd to and don it himself this apeard to be the toper for he was seldom seen to speak to Chace arfter this = in a few dayes we got into quit nice weather the Captain goes to the forth Mate Mr. Streeter and tells him to geet the Bon up out of the hold and wash it. his smart mate was right there but what was the ues of telling him about it when he knowed nothing about sutch things = and he began to show quit plain that he was geeting about tired[?] of his Smart Mate, and as son as the men saw how matters Stood between them Mr C [Chace] lead a hard live and he being a coward made it stil wors for him. on the pasige down Captain. S. [Simmons] got Depley Entrested in Card playing. and he and the Frenchmen spend the most of there time at it, Sundayes in particular for when Sunday came around thay genreley played all day and a good part of the Night, so things went on Captain S. [Simmons] seldom com on deck on the Passeg down and when he did it was onley to see that the Ship was going to wards the Islands as fast as posable. as that apeard to be his hol study. there was nothing don to the Ship in the whay of makeing her look net befor going in as had genreley been don on 



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the former part of the voyeg when Bound into Port = I cant remember of Eaver going in to Port in a ship so completley rect as the Cleone is off of this cruis.



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Arived in Port at last = arfter the Anchor was let go of Course the Oficers whent on shor as thay had onley shiped for a cruise = Mr C. [Chace] amung the rest. when he whent over the Side I was readey to resume my dutey as I had told Captain S [Simmons] at the time of the disturbence. to this of cours he was not agreable as it would be making to plain work of it befor the bublic. arfter the hand he had played in the game. Captain S. [Simmons] stayed on board the first Night and turnd the men to in the morning. about nine oclock Mr. C. [Chace] came off about half Drunk all Drest up like a wall street merchant and began to give Orders. Captain S= [Simmons] seeing that the men wer not Enclined to Obay them he told him that he had got throw with him and that he could have his Discharge any time he wanted it. he then told me he wanted me to com on Shor to the Amercan Councles that he warnted to see me there = I drest up and went on shor to the Councles. of cours Captain S [Simmons] had been a head of me and told his own Storey. I stated the case to the Counsel Just As it was. He apeard to be a veary fare man and told me that he could see about how things Stood and wat had been the course of the truble and that he thought it could Easley be seattled, and that he would have a talk with the Captain and the best thing I could do was to go with my dutey as befor. as I had never had any truble befor this Chace came on board. it would be all right as he was going to be discharged. he sayed that the Captain had told him that I had gave him perfic satisfattion. until Mr C. [Chace] come on board and that I was a good man but he thought I had acted rather to Enderpendent on this cruis, and that I could never resume my dutey again on board of that Ship --



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Arfter I had had my talk with the Councel and was about to leve the Ofice Captain S. [Simmons] came in I met him he asked me if I had seen the Councle I told him I had. he then asked me what conclusion I had com to. I told him I Eather warnted to resume my Dutey or. my Discharge wel he sayes if you want your Discharge you can have it = the Councle wil give it to you any time you warnt it. but I wont settle with you. I thought of cours that it was a settle Point that my serverces wer not wanted any mor on board of the Cleone = the Sips wer coming in pretey fast. and the Councle being quit bessey. I thought I would take a strol around until there was a slack time and then drop in for my Di scharage. I called around again in a little while and there hapened to be a slak time and asked for my Discharge. the Clerk told me that the Captain had been in Sence I was there befor and had left Order not for them to give me my Discharge without I sined Clear of the Ship. I had a nother talk with the Councle. he sayed that the Captain was a Stuben sort of a Fello and did not apear to warnt to come to a faire settlement - but he sayed he would have a nother talke with him. and gused he could make it all right on the morrow. and that I must call in again the next day. I stoped on shor that night and whent on bord the next day and got sum Clen Cose. and whent to the Orfice again. the Councle told me that he had not seen the Captain. but if I would stop aroung there he would send for him and try to Settle it. I wated all day with out cuccess - the Councle told me as befor to call in on the morro = that he was in hopes he would geet the Captain in there by that time. but he maneged to keep awhay. as he knowed there was a number of Captains ready to Ship me as son as I was Discharged. he apeared to be determind to detain me as long as posable. the Councle sent for him the next day = and when the councle 



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broched the Subject. Captain S [Simmons] told him he had seen me arfter Discharging Chace and had tryed to get me to goo to my Dutey and that I had refuesed to = and wanted to know if he could not have me arested for a Derzerter. the Councle told if sutch was the case that he could but he rather he wouldent. and he thought he could settle it in a mutch Eazer whay - but if he insested upon having me arested that he could give him an arest but he would rather not. he told the councle that if sutch a thing could be don he warnted me arested. I had Just finished my Diner and was seating out in front of the Hotell when the constable came to me with the arest. and I whent to the Prison with him. this surprized me arfter Captain S. [Simmons] had told me that I could have my Discharge aney time I warnted it. I have got one thing to say that the Prison is a butifull Bilden and well conducted = and the conducters are Jentlemen and treeted me as one dureing my short stay with them witch was about 20 hours. for I had not bin ther long befor my frinds began to make Enquires arfter me and eus there Enfluence to geet me out. whilst I was ther I had a Captain call on me that was in warnt of a mate and he was readey to Ship me as son as I got my Discharge. when I came out of Prison I whent strait in surtch of Captain. S. [Simmons] to find out what I had been arested for. I found him in a short time and when I met him face to face the Surprize had taken a turn for I dont think I Eaver saw a mor Shepes looking man in all my travls. he could not look me in the face. I caught his Eye but onley for a Enstent for knowed he had told the councle a ly to geet me arested. and when he don it he had an idear that he would keep me there til he brought me to his turmes as he told sum of the other Captains. I have hard work to guven my temper but I did reasoneable wel under the curcumstances. when I met 



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him I asked him if I had misunder stood him about my discharge. he had not a word to say for himself and I think if there had been a hold any whear clost at hand Eaver so small he could of got throw it with all Eas to of got out of my sight. when I found that he would not give me any satsfaction. I went strait to the Councle and stated my cace to him and told him that the Captain had not spoken a word to me prevest to my being arested witch brought the Captain out in a bar face ly. the Councle by thes time began to form his opion of the Captain witch was not a veary faverable one. he told me if he did not com to turmes befor long that he should bring him to them. he told me to take a seet and that he would send out for the Captain and he would soon seattle it. he sent for him three diffrent times but he did not com I stoped about the ofies all day. at night the councle sayed he thought it veary straing that he did not com. it was put off til the next day. befor leving the Ofces to go to my hotell I asked the Councle if there was any danger of my being arested again. he smiled and stuck his head with a wink saying he rather gused not. I called again the next day. and when I got in to the Ofices hear was Mr C. [Chace] the Captains compaion with a Lawerer trying to redim the sum of about 250 Dolers witch he swor the Captan had don him out of when Seattling = how would of thought it arfter all the respect he had showen him all the season. it was soon seattled for as soon as the Lawer found out what seaves Chace had been to the Cleone he advized him to let it all drop and be content with what he had got. and to keep frinds with the Captain as he would bee beholding to him to get another berth off of the Beach.. if I am alowed to form an opinion I say what money was paid that man was a lost to thos concerned in the ship Just the same as if he had stolen it out of there Pockets. a reauglar hiwhay Roberey. the Councle sent out for the Captain 



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but he did not com arfter sending for him the scont time he wrote a small note to him witch I was the bearo of teling him that he the Councle warnted to see him at his Offices Amedertley. I saw the not and I begin to think there was sum hopes of bringing him to an acount about the ly had had been caught in. I gave the not to the Captain and whent back to the Offices with captain S. [Simmons] fallowing on behind one. he looked Sheepesh Enugh when he got into the Offices. but there was no Squeek from him. the Councle spoke to him in not a veary pleasant manner and asked him what he ment by sutch careings on and what he calcerlatede to dew with me. he sayed he did not know. well sayes the Councle you have got to do one thing or the other. let Mr S. [Strout] go to his duty as befor or Discharge him. Captain S [Simmons] then sayes to me dow you warnt your Discharge yes I sayes I Eather warnt one or the other as the councles has Just told you. I told him I would rather finish the voyage, and so would he but he did not like to acknolege it. so he sayes to the councle he can never be an Officer again on board of that Ship. the Councle smiled and told him if that was the cace that he would haf to Discharge me. Says he Captain comen sences ought to tell you that you cant Disrait that man arfter you have told me that he was capble of dewng his dutey and was a firstrait man and had gave you Perfick Satisfattion un tell that man Chace came on board of yourr Ship. so I cant see sayes the Councle but what this man Chace has been the course of all your truble and not Mr. Strout = so I think the best thing you can dew is to talk the mater over with Mr Strout and geat him to resume his dutey. Captain S [Simmons] made no arncer whatever arfter waiting a while the Councle told him again, that if he could not make his mind up to that he would hafto Discharge me. well sayes Captain S [Simmons] arfter a long Silence I shall 



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Discharge him but I will not settle with him I told him if he did not see feet to seattle with me I would take an Order = but he refuesed to give me that. I then told him I would take my Discharge with out aney settlement and I would trust to the Generrosetey of the Oners weather I got my Pay or not = he finley cam to them turmes. and the Clirck went at work making out my Discharge. but whilst he was making it out the Captain slipet out of the Offices and in to a Lawers and got sum leagle advice on the subject. and he came back in a grate hurey Just as the Clirck was handing me over my Discharge and told them not to give it to me until I sined Clear of the Ship. this roiled the Councle as wel as myself. but as it was geeting late the Councle sayed let it stand until the next day. so hear I was put off again. there was a new Councle about to take his seet. but the Old one told me he would trancefer my cace over to him with the rest of his unsettled bisiness. and that it should be tended to the next day. I called again the next day and the Councle sent out for the Captain and in he coumes with one Captain Willcox a ship Charlender to dew his talking for him. when he began with his old games trying to put me off again. the Councle told him that he had got to stick to his bargan that he made last Night that tere was no kinde of eus for him to try to get out of that. for that was a bargan made in his preasences and that he would hafto stick to it. he made seaveral Excueses and finley started to go out. but when he saw there was a nother Captain readey to Ship me when I was Discharged he came back and be gan to talk veary nice and teling me that there was a number of captains in warnt of mates and that thay had been to him to make Enquires about me. I told him I was well awhare



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of that and that there had been plentey of them been to me that was readey to Ship me any time with out any of his Reckamentation for the most of them know about the truble we had had and how it was couresed and knew he was bound to hurt me all he could. I took my Discharge and left the Ofice. when he saw that I had frinds and was not beholding to him. he thought I supoes it would be for his Entrest to keep the right side of me to help him out of sum of his Crapes that he had got into on the voyage. I saw him quit oftin arfter I got my Discharge but never spok to him. he made me as Polite a bow as one could Expect from one that came from the countrey that he came from. but I never noticed him. for I could see what he was aming at as he had not spoke to me for three Months befor this.



I gave up the idear of going a nother season as I thought it was my dutey to go home and settle my voyage. So I shipped on Board the Bark Martha for home to Sail the first of December.



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must Pay up the Old scure or find another house. and if it had not of been for the Jew that he had bought his close of he would of faired veary slim as there was not a hous in the place that would take him in. for thay had all got Stock of him by this time. the Jew got him a weekes board at a Chinese Resterant and arfter the week was up he went around the town bothe Dertey and raged baging for his grube and was taking up and tryed befor the Polese court for Steeling his Grub out of a Chines Shop. Captain S [Simmons] of cours was kept Posted up about him as the other Captains had thousands of questions to ask him about his clipper mate that he had last season to try to Satesfy there quoreostay: for thay could not hardley bleve that a man could go a whaling as long as Captain S [Simmons] had been and not be a better Judge of humen Nature.

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and whilst he stayed he would like to have him as a compaion. the Man of cours had no obgections as he thought he had got into big cumpney. thay took a walk out togeather and Chace was pretending to be looking for the Captain that he had told him he had latley shipped with. he finley gave up the pretended surch and sayes never mind I will see him bar ne by. he then sayes to the Chap I dont lik to be around with you amung compney Emtey handed I allwayes like to keep my End up. supose you lend me 20 Dolers until I see the Captain to Night. I wil hand it ove agin to you then. of cors sayes the man as he apeard to be sutch a nice fellow. the Por man was but that was the last of his 20$ a half of his 9 months hard Eanings. when he saw Chace the Next day Chace did not know him. and he was no longer his compaion, but he would stand by to catch sum one Eles in the same trap. he cared this game on as lond as he could keep looking respectable. but when he came to rages and dert. the meanest and most Degraded Salors on the Beach would not seak to him or keep his cumpney.



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Arfter acuesing Captain S [Simmons] of trying to suindle him out of what was dew him and bringing a Lawer in to Councles ofices and Demanding a seont settlement he goes to the Capains Hottle and puts on the Old Smiles sutch as he uest to whin him, with on board the ship and asked him for the lone of five Dolers, and Strang to Say arfter all the respect this man had shone Captain S. [Simmons] he he refuesed him the small sum of five Dolers. as the Old saying it the best of Frinds wil pull out sum times,