. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... andpassage that all boats took, but our map gave us an ideathat it was a wide channel, and this is what I looked another day and nights sail, we sighted a longstretch of land protruding out into the sea, while a fewmiles away was another stretch of high land that I tookfor an island. We made up our minds that it must be , and decided to shape our course for it. As wehad a fine day and fair wind we were soon on the shoresof the island. Lepa
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... andpassage that all boats took, but our map gave us an ideathat it was a wide channel, and this is what I looked another day and nights sail, we sighted a longstretch of land protruding out into the sea, while a fewmiles away was another stretch of high land that I tookfor an island. We made up our minds that it must be , and decided to shape our course for it. As wehad a fine day and fair wind we were soon on the shoresof the island. Lepage climbed to the top of a mountain and saw noth-ing of St. Michaels. He said that it was an island. Hesaw some tents and in one place some seals, so we talkedthe situation over. He said he thought we had passedthe channel into St. Michaels when I was asleep. Hethought it best to go back to this place, and as he sawrsome tents there we could inquire the way in. I agreed,and we again headed our boat for the coast that was somemiles away. The sky looked dark and heavy and I feltthat we might have a storm, for which our boat was not. STEWART ISLAND. WE EMBARK ON OUR LONG JOURNEYr. 239> fit. We must, therefore, find a place to get in as soon aswe could. We got pretty near the place where we ex-pected to find shelter, when I noticed the land was gettingaway from us very rapidly. Then I thought of the flood tide coming in, againstwhich it was no use to try to sail, so we squared away upthe coast, and as I lay down exhausted, I told Lepage torun in the first opening and tie up for the night. Therewas quite a choppy sea, that I did not like, and it wasgetting along into the night. I went to sleep, but wassoon awakened by the boat pounding on rocks. I couldhear the roar of the sea and knew by the wet coveringover me that water was washing in, so I got up, and whata dismal place we were in ! I asked Lepage why he putin there, and he replied that it was so dark he took it forthe month
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