Fortunately for the little band of wanderers, Captain Godfrey had left on board the vessel a small Dutch stove and a number of broken boxes.

A fire was soon made, some of the burnt pork was sliced and put in a pan and fried for the night's meal.

But the children sank to rest soon after getting on board, and lay huddled together on the cabin floor.

After the Captain and his wife had partaken of the meal and before retiring to rest on the hard boards of the floor, Mrs.Godfrey read, by the dim light of a candle, the fifty-fourth psalm.
Nothing can better prove the genuineness of a life, the soundness of a profession, the real character of a man or woman, than those extreme trials and difficulties of earth, when no friends are near to help and where no way of escape seems possible.

In trials, such as those related above, the noblest traits of character or the hollowness and rottenness of a profession are often plainly seen.