. History of Oregon; the growth of an American state. to the masterabove him, and proverbial to the lieutenant. His onegood quality, honest fidelity to his employers inter-est, became his chief fault. He was narrow, unsym-pathetic, arbitrary, harsh, suspicious, and easily im-posed upon. The voyage became a series of pettydisagreements between the partners, chiefly thepompous McDougal, and the captain. Thorn became morose and placed himself often inthe wrong. The old Constitution gave the Ton-quin safe conduct to sea, as it was reported that aBritish man-of-war from Halifax was hovering offthe
. History of Oregon; the growth of an American state. to the masterabove him, and proverbial to the lieutenant. His onegood quality, honest fidelity to his employers inter-est, became his chief fault. He was narrow, unsym-pathetic, arbitrary, harsh, suspicious, and easily im-posed upon. The voyage became a series of pettydisagreements between the partners, chiefly thepompous McDougal, and the captain. Thorn became morose and placed himself often inthe wrong. The old Constitution gave the Ton-quin safe conduct to sea, as it was reported that aBritish man-of-war from Halifax was hovering offthe harbor to overhaul the American and impress theCanadians. Scarcely had she left them to the oceanand night, before Thorn ordered such petty restric-tions as putting out all lights at eight oclock, treat-ing the partners as common seamen. He also or-dered unnecessary, and often mortifying examina-tions of their baggage, and in enforcing cleanlinessupon the fellows as they became seasick, or in re-quiring them to take open-air exercise, was harsh and. GABRIEL FRANCHEREA Clerk of John Jacob Aator at Astoria. AN AMERICAN STATE 243 disagreeable in his manner. In his correspondencehe shows a constant irritation and contempt; in theirjournals the clerks show an equal dislike, but mixedwith much humor, of which Thorn was entirely de-void. At the Falkland Islands, where he was obliged tostop for water, he became greatly irritated becausethe partners, who went goose-hunting, neglected toreturn at the appointed time. After one or twothreats to leave them on the islands, as commandersall the way from Magellan down had sometimes donewith refractory men, he actually attempted to carryout the punishment. Stuart and McDougal werehunting, and Franchere and some others had foundthe graves of some shipwrecked men, and seeing thatthe inscriptions upon the head boards were worn andlikely soon to be effaced, considered it a great act ofgood will, or piety, to trace them over. The signalgun was fired
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