My report to the company as co-electrician will show everything right in that department.

We got an electric current through till the moment of parting, so that electric connection was perfect, and yet the farther we paid out the feebler were the currents, indicating a difficulty which, however, I do not consider serious, while it is of a nature to require attentive investigation." "_Plymouth, August 17._ Here I am still held by the leg and lying in my berth from which I have not moved for six days.

I suffer but little pain unless I attempt to sit up, and the healing process is going on most favorably but slowly....

I have been here three days and have not yet had a glimpse of the beautiful country that surrounds us, and if we should be ordered to another port before I can be out I shall have as good an idea of Plymouth as I should have at home looking at a map." While the wounded leg healed slowly, the plans of the company moved more deliberately still.

A movement was on foot for the East India Company to purchase what remained of the cable for use in the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf, so that the Atlantic Company could start afresh with an entirely new cable, and Morse hoped that this plan might be consummated at an early date so that he could return to America in the Niagara; but the negotiations halted from day to day and week to week.