CHAPTER III.
ARRIVES OFF FORT FREDERICK--PAUL GUIDON.
After the arrival of the sloop at the mouth of the St.John, the Captain was compelled to leave his wife and family.

There was not a morsel of food of any description in the locker.

The necessaries that had been supplied by Crabtree for the voyage were entirely consumed.
The day following the arrival off Fort Frederick, Captain Godfrey set sail in his small boat for Passmaquaddy, eighteen leagues distant.

The boat was the same one in which he accomplished his successful journey to Annapolis Royal.

His intention in setting out for Passmaquaddy was to visit a settlement belonging to a Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, and there procure some supplies for his family, and sails and rigging for the sloop.
He left his family in a most destitute condition, they having neither shoes nor stockings to their feet, and every other article of their clothing being in rags and tatters.