A Salem shipmaster and merchant; the autobiography of George Nichols . aboard a cargo of sugar and coffee and re-turned to Salem, arriving here about the 10th ofOctober, 1798, having been absent a year. Thisvoyage was badly planned, and it proved a losingone to Capt. Forrester. More than all, it was amost unpleasant one, owing to the captains in-temperance. On two or three occasions he wasso intoxicated as to be obliged to leave the vesselin the charge of the mates. Before closing myaccount of this voyage, I would observe thatLouis, the port at which we stopped, and the seatof government of th
A Salem shipmaster and merchant; the autobiography of George Nichols . aboard a cargo of sugar and coffee and re-turned to Salem, arriving here about the 10th ofOctober, 1798, having been absent a year. Thisvoyage was badly planned, and it proved a losingone to Capt. Forrester. More than all, it was amost unpleasant one, owing to the captains in-temperance. On two or three occasions he wasso intoxicated as to be obliged to leave the vesselin the charge of the mates. Before closing myaccount of this voyage, I would observe thatLouis, the port at which we stopped, and the seatof government of the Isle of France, was rathera pleasant place, small and much frequented byforeigners. Sugar was the principal article ofproduce. We visited Bourbon Island, from one to i Simon Forrester, a native of Ireland, came to Salemin early youth and became a very active and wealthymerchant. He lived in a house on Derby Street, oppositehis wharf and warehouses, the wharf now named died July 4th, 1817, aged seventy-one years.—EssexInstitute Records, Vol. IV, p. Gateway of the House SO Federal Street, Salem. EARLY SEAFARING DAYS 39 two hundred miles distant from Louis, one of themost beautiful islands in the world, with a veryfine climate. Coffee grows here abundantly. Itis said that there is a volcano in the interior ofthe island, but we did not see it, as our vesselstopped here but a day or two. After remaining at home about two months, Iwent in the Sally, a schooner of about one hun-dred and twenty tons burden, to Petersburg, Va.,to get a load of tobacco which was wanted by theowners to complete a cargo destined for the northof Europe. The Sally was chartered by myfather, Capt. Hodges and others, and commandedby Capt. Tim Bryant,1 with whom I was jointsupercargo. We sailed the latter part of Novem-ber, arrived at Petersburg about the middle ofDecember and remained there about ten purchased our cargo and got back to MarthasVineyard the 1st of January, 1799. Being
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