N., so that since we abandoned the "Chancellor" we had drifted at least fifteen degrees to the south-west.

Except for the influence of the Gulf Stream we must have been carried far, far to the south, and in that case we should never have reached the mouth of the Amazon, and must inevitably have been lost.
Of the thirty-two souls--nine passengers, and twenty-three seamen--who left Charleston on board the ship, only five passengers and six seamen remain.

Eleven of us alone survive.
An official account of our rescue was drawn up by the Brazilian authorities.

Those who signed were Miss Herbey, J.R.Kazallon, M.
Letourneur, Andre Letourneur, Mr.Falsten, the boatswain, Dowlas, Burke, Flaypole, Sandon, and last, though not least, "Robert Curtis, captain." At Para we soon found facilities for continuing our homeward route.

A vessel took us to Cayenne, where we secured a passage on board one of the steamers of the French Transatlantic Aspinwall line, the "Ville de St.Nazaire," which conveyed us to Europe.
After all the dangers and privations which we have undergone together, it is scarcely necessary to say that there has arisen between the surviving passengers of the "Chancellor" a bond of friendship too indissoluble, I believe, for either time or circumstance to destroy; Curtis must ever remain the honoured and valued friend of those whose welfare he consulted so faithfully in their misfortunes; his conduct was beyond all praise.
When we were fairly on our homeward way, Miss Herbey by chance intimated to us her intention of retiring from the world and devoting the remainder of her life to the care of the sick and suffering.
"Then why not come and look after my son ?" said M.Letourneur, adding, "he is an invalid, and he requires, as he deserves, the best of nursing." Miss Herbey, after some deliberation, consented to become a member of their family, and finds in M.Letourneur a father, and in Andre a brother.