On the 13th they met Major Heintzelman coming down-stream, and as he had taken field notes Derby considered it unnecessary for him to proceed, and they went back in company to the ship, arriving there the same afternoon.

The vessel was then worked three miles farther up, where her cargo was discharged to be taken by teams to the fort.

Heintzelman was accompanied by a Dr.Ogden and a Mr.Henchelwood, "proprietors of the ferry." The Craig gang had been destroyed earlier this year, and these men had probably established a new ferry.

While lying at this berth, the vessel was roughly tumbled about by the tidal wave, till she broke from her anchor and drifted rapidly up-stream.

This was the highest and most powerful spring tide, and the situation was full of peril.