if
it was twice as high and she was not long in getting on deck.

[Illustration: DECK OF KATHLEEN, LOOKING FOR'ARD]

Captain Dalton met us and welcomed us on board of the Borderer of
Glasgow. He was very kind to us and did everything possible for us for
the nine days we were on board his steamer, gave up his room to Mrs.
Jenkins and myself even.

In nine days we were landed at Pernambuco and from there we came to
Philadelphia on steamer Pydna, Captain Crossley.

We found friends everywhere we went; even in Philadelphia I had
telegrams asking me to telegraph them if I needed any assistance. We
arrived at New Bedford in due time and even Mr. Wing, (the agent of the
Bark Kathleen), met me smilingly and seemed glad to see me. Everything
seemed to work our way after the accident. When we were leaving the
Borderer Capt. Dalton gave me thirty dollars in American bills, all he
had with him.

He told me to take it and if I felt able when I got home to send the
amount to his wife in England. It seems that Capt. Dalton had been
running down this way for some years and having met head currents
decided _this_ trip to make a passage three or four degrees to the
eastward to see if he couldn't get out of it.

Owing to this fact we were picked up as we were.

As we had not seen a sail of any description for some time we might
have been days in our boat before seeing any vessel.

The other boat containing one of the mates and 9 seamen landed safely
at the Barbados after being in the boat 9 days with but 5 gallons of
water and a little ship bread.

[Illustration: TWO FAMOUS OLD WHALERS, BARKS ROUSSEAU AND DESDEMONA]

LOSS OF THE SHIPS ANN ALEXANDER AND ESSEX.

Cases of whales rushing head on are very rare. One instance which will
be remembered by some of the older residents of the city was in 1851,
when the ship Ann Alexander was sunk in the Pacific ocean by a maddened
whale.

In the Whaleman's Shipping List of Nov. 4, 1851, is a very full account
of that occurrence. The story, which is substantially as follows, first
appeared in the Panama Herald, as told by Captain John S. Deblois,
follows:

The ship Ann Alexander sailed from New Bedford, June 1st, 1850, for a
cruise in the South Pacific. Having taken 500 barrels of sperm oil in
the Atlantic, Captain Deblois proceeded on the voyage to the Pacific.

On the 20th of August, 1851, while cruising on the "Off Shore grounds,"
at 9 o'clock in the morning, whales were d