We were taken on board, and treated with extreme kindness.

The second last boat was also picked up at sea, and the survivors saved.

A ship afterwards sailed in search of our companions on the desolate island, and brought them away.' Captain Pollard closed his dreary narrative with saying, in a tone of despondency never to be forgotten by him who heard it, 'After a time I found my way to the United States, to which I belonged, and got another ship.

That, too, I have lost by a second wreck off the Sandwich Islands, and now I am utterly ruined.

No owner will ever trust me with a whaler again, for all will say I am an _unlucky_ man.' The following account respecting the three men that were left on the uninhabited island, is given in a note of the same work, and said to be extracted from a religious tract, No.