The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-03
Pleasure trip of the Yacht Wanderer.

From her charts, log-book, and pa
pers found on board of the yacht W an
derer, we CLEAN the following particu
lars relative to her late voyage:
Leaving New York on the 18th of
June, she reached Charleston on the
25th, and there remained ten days.
entertaining good many visitors and
taking on board a great variety of arti-
cles which may, or may not, properly
belong to the regular outfit of a vesst
clearing for Trinidad, and other ports
in the West Indies" Among these
supplies are noticed q goodly quantity
of wines and cigars, $4,000 gallons OF
water and 80 six quart pans, and 90
five quart pans, and so one pint tin
cups, which articles of tin-ware Were
doubtless intended to hold bait for
fishing, and had no connection with
the wooden spoons. On clearing
from Charleston the yachts company
consisted of II persons as screw" be-
sides several persons called travelling
companions of Capt. Corrie,' and YET
who seem to have received certain
sums of money from him.
Leaving Charleston on the 4th July,
the yacht made the run to Fort Spain,
island of Trinidad, under favorable
circumstances in Is days. During the
five days of her stay at that port, she
received a good many visitors, and
among them the Governor of the island,
the American Consul, several of Her
Britanic Majesty's officers, the Cover
nor's sister and daughter, and num-
Der of ladies'-and part of the list
appear to have been entertained at din.
ner.
Further supplies were taken on
board, including 1900 gallons of water
(the thirsty souls.) On leaving this
port the heading of her iog stands from
Trinidad, Fort Spain, towards St
Helena, but without going anywhere
near St Helena, her course was directly
towards Congo River, which, after a
run Of 81 days, she enters on the 10th
of September. 1t appears from the
entries in the log, that during the ten
days passed in Congo River, the yach,
received on board call the white in
habitants of the place"-that there
were many dining parties given-tha,
the officers of the English frigate Me
dusa made "visit Of courtesy" and
dined on board. On September 26tf
the Wanderer "got under weigh and
proceeded to sea; gave the yacht
Marguerite trial and passed her like
the wind" The log fur.har states
that on "October 4th, arrived at Ben
guela, Qower down on the coast) after
eight days hard. beating against the
wind current" Here all record in the
log-book ceases, and but for other me
moranda she could not be traced with
certainty any further. From these.
however, it appears that she left the
coast between the Congo River and
Benguela on the 10th or 18th October,
and thence her course is as direct as
possibly (position each day being accu-
rately determined) to Brunswick, Geor-
gia. At meridian November 9th, the
yacht was within SO miles of Cumber-
land light, and must have taken the
pilot on board OH the morning of the
29th, making the run home in about 4C
days. From memorandum of ssLisl
of Cargo, 10 to the Talie," it would
appear that the number of Africans
taken on board was 400. As abou,
325 are known to have been landed
some Is to SIS must have died on the
pagsage.