take to the boat, which we did without any
confusion whatever.

There were twenty-one of us in the boat and with the water and bread
and some old clothes she was pretty near the water, so deep that the
water came over the centre board, so that some of us had to keep
bailing all the time, while the rest were paddling down to the boat
that was still laying by the whale.

[Illustration: DECK OF KATHLEEN, LOOKING AFT]

The ship rolled over to windward five minutes after we got clear of
her. Well, we got to Mr. Viera at last and divided the men and give him
his share of bread and water. Then it was dark and very necessary that
we should find the other boats, for I knew they did not see the ship
capsize and they would be looking for her for a day or so with no water
to drink. Well, we set our sails and steered as near as we could where
we thought the boats ought to be and about nine o'clock we raised them.

They were very much surprised to hear that the Kathleen was gone. I
gave them some bread and water and divided the men up again, so three
boats had ten men each and one boat nine men. I told them all to keep
in sight of me and that I would keep a lantern burning all night. We
then started for the island of Barbados, distant 1,060 miles. It was a
beautiful moonlight night with a smooth sea. When morning came there
was not a boat to be seen so I came to the wind and laid with the sheet
slacked off over an hour and raised a boat to windward steering for us.
It was the third mate and he wanted some water. The water we gave him
the night before was all salt. Well, we divided with him again and
again started on our journey with five gallons of water. I told the
third mate to keep up with me if he could but I should not stop for him
or any one else again. About nine o'clock a.m. some one said he saw
something off the port bow. We all looked and made it out to be smoke
from a steamer and soon saw she was coming right for us, so we knew we
were saved.

When she got near we saw she had a whale boat on her davits. They had
picked up our second mate an hour before and he had told the captain
that there were three other boats adrift and one of them had the
captain and wife on board, so he was steaming around with two men at
the masthead with glasses looking for us. We got alongside and she was
way out of water. I asked Mrs. Jenkins if she could get up on a rope
ladder they had put over the side and she said yes, she could get up