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Show • FINDING OF THE W REOK. 25 grasps the pole, and is pulled ashore. Seneca llowland is washed farther down the island, and i~:; caught by some rocks, and, though somewhat bruised, manages to got ashore in safety. This scorn~:; a long time, as I toll it, but it is quickly done. And now the three men arc on an i land, with a swift, dangerou~:; river on oithor side, and a fall below. Tho "Emma Dean" is soon brought down, and Sumner, starting above as far as pos~:;iblo, pu ·hos out. Right skillfully ho plies the oars, and a few strokes set him on tho island at tho prop r point. rrhon they all pull tho boat up stream, a far as they arc able, unt_il they stand in water up to their necks. Ono sits on a rock, and holds tho boat until tho others aro ready to puU, then gives tho boat a push, clings to it with ltiH hanJs, and climbs in as they pull for mainlanJ, which they roach in safety. W o are as glad to shako hands with thorn a~:; though they had been on a voyage around tho world, and wrecked on a d}stant coast. Down the river half a milo wo find that tho after cabin of tho wrecked boat, with a part of tho bottom, ragged and splintered, has :floated again~:~t a rock, and stranded. rrl10ro are valuable articles in tho cabin; but, on examination, wo determine that lifo should not bo risked to save them. Of course, tho cargo of rations, instruments, and clothing is gone. W o return to the boats, and make camp for tho night. No sloop comes to mo in all those dark hours. The rations, instruments, and clothing have been divided among tho boats, anticipating such an accident as this; and wo started with duplicates of everything that was doomed noces::~ary to success. But, in tho distribution, there was ono exception to thi::~ precaution, and the barometers were all placed in one boat, and they are lost. Thoro is a possibility that they aro in the cabin lodged against the rock, for that i~:; whore they were kept. But, then, how to reach them! Tho rivor i~:; t·ising. Will they be thoro to-morrow~ Can I go out to Salt Lake City, and obtain barometers from Now York f June 10.-I have determined to got tho barometers from the wreck, if they are there. After breakfast, while tho mon make tho portage, I go down again for another examination. rrhere the cabin lies, only carried fifty or sixty foot farther on. Careful! y looking over tho ground, I am sa.ti:;£leu that it can bo roached 4 ('()T, |
