e helped us greatly in the building of the new boat. Besides this
there were a number of rafters and floor boards that I had collected
from the old store-house after the explosion; but our third and best
supply was obtained from the wreck of Alec's ketch, "Jeanette," the fore
part of which still remained jammed high up between two rocks, which
stood about twelve feet apart, near high-water mark, on La Crevichon.
From this, by dint of three days' hard work, we secured several loads of
deck-timber and other very useful pieces, which "Eddy" dragged up for us
to the ruined store-house.

We found our cart wheels were not high enough to clear the big stones on
the beach, so we took them off and replaced them by two runners so as to
form a kind of sledge, which answered much better, although many pieces
were jerked off _en route_, by reason of the rugged path and primitive
construction of the sledge. As Alec remarked, they served as guide
posts, so that there was no losing the way. This idea I got by reading
Catlin's "North American Indians." By lashing two long tent poles at a
horse's sides, with the ends trailing on the ground, they form a kind of
sledge, upon which they can carry considerable loads upon transverse
sticks.

From the battered hulk we also brought a great number of bolts and other
iron-work, a companion ladder, windlass, pump, bowsprit bits, bell, a
torn jib, a quantity of cordage, and whatever else we could lay our
hands upon, that might have the most remote chance of being of future
use to us.

In story books it is usual to have a ship come ashore just in a
convenient spot, and with a full cargo; but ours, unfortunately, was
only half a battered hulk, perfectly empty, and in a most awkward
position to get at, as we had to cross the Crevichon Channel at every
trip, so that we could only bring the wreckage over at low tide. We
could, however, continue our work of dismantling right through the day,
except for two hours, when the high tide flowed in and out through poor
"Jeanette's" ribs. These two hours we took for rest, food, and the
soothing pipe. Bless Raleigh!

When we had collected all our material, both iron and wood, we commenced
building the "Anglo-Franc," and in three weeks had her finished and
afloat. She was sixteen feet over all, by five feet beam, and was rigged
in the style peculiar to the Guernsey boats; that is to say she had two
small masts. The foremast was stepped exactly amidships, while