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Title: Thirty-six voyages to various parts of the world, made between the years 1799 and 1841
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Coggeshall, George, 1784-1861
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York, The author, G.P. Putnam, agent
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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visions and other articles, suitable for the West India market, and appointed Captain Richard Hepburn, of Milford, to command her: he was an experienced navigator and a worthy, efficient man. The invoice of the whole cargo amounted to twenty-five hundred dollars. After she was loaded, I feared my sister would not be comfortable on board so small a vessel, in our boisterous climate. Though well adapted to sail about the islands in the West Indies, she would doubtless be very wet and uncomfortable in our high, northern latitude. I accordingly dispatched the Julia and Laura for St. Bartholomew, and as the brig Lawrence was then loading for that place, I concluded to take passage in her with my sister. I had directed Capt. H. to proceed to his port of destination, dispose of such parts of his cargo as would pay a fair profit, and there wait for me, and that I should probably meet him in that port in about a week or ten days after his arrival. Captain Hepburn had, besides his own crew, about half a
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SANTA CRUZ AND PORTO RICO. 499 dozen passengers. The next day after he sailed, he encountered a tremendous gale of wind from the N. W. and W. 1ST. W., which continued to blow with great violence for three days. During the whole gale, the little schooner scudded before the wind under the head of a foresail, and met with no loss except some trifling articles which were washed from off her decks. I was told the Captain, who was a thorough-bred seaman, steered the little schooner through the whole of the tempest himself. Several vessels, that sailed the same day from New York and Philadelphia, were either lost or dismasted. The ship Governor Clinton, Captain David Hepburn (nephew of the Captain of the Julia and Laura) sailed the same day, bound round Cape Horn to Chili and Peru, lost several spars, and was so severely handled that she was forced to return to New York to repair damages. The next day after the gale, Capt. H., of the Gov. Clinton, picked up a seaman from off a piece of the wreck of a vessel

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