While the steamboat was sheering away, and the ship, in full sail, was hauling off, to hasten on her voyage, her bulwarks were lined by the 26 Chinese sailors, in tears at parting with their kind friends, Capt. and Mrs. Richardson, and their beloved countryman, Lin-King-Chew, whom they almost worshipped for his many acts of generosity, sympathy and friendship. The scene was truly worthy of an artist's pencil. The whole rail on the starboard side was lined with the swarthy figures of these bare-headed Mongolians, shaking their hands in the air, and looking towards the steamboat. The caps of the crew were flourishing aloft behind them, as they gave their three cheers, which were answered by the ladies waving their handkerchiefs, and the response of the gentlemen. When these had ceased, the Chinese sailors struck up their farewell song, which continued, in their harsh, cracked voices, till both vessels were so far separated that the sound died on the air. In one hour a small speck on the horizon was all that was seen of the bark Candace and her interesting passengers. On the steamboat's return, her services were requested, by a signal set under the jib-boom of a ship aground, within the Hook, which for 24 hours had made ineffectual efforts by sails, and, as soon as it could be produced, by another steamboat, to get off. After breaking several large hawsers, and two hours' hard straining with steam, the Jacob Bell succeeded in hauling her off, and the passengers who accompanied the Candace reached the city at 6 o'clock in the evening.--/Express/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber's Note, Part 2 Before the publication of this eBook, anyone interested in the personal account of the first Chinese traveler to the United States in the late 1840s had to rely on the first modern edition: Lin Zhen 林鍼. "Xi hai ji you cao 西海纪游草 ." Zou xiang shi jie cong shu 走向世界丛书 [From East to West: Chinese Travellers Before 1911], edited by Zhong Shu He 钟叔 河, Yang Guo Zhen 杨国桢, and Zuo Bu Qing, 左步青, [vol 1], yue lu shu she 岳麓书社, 1985, pp.9-63. Editors of this book (thereafter "the 1985 revised edition") used a privately-owned copy in China, which according to them passed down from the author to his family. One of the editors, Yang, discovered this obscure book in 1980 and, with his co-editors, edited and introduced it to the public in China and beyond. Without the 1985 revised edition, I, like others, would not have known this early Chinese traveler to the West and his interesting encounters, which include his observations of American society and technology, his rescue of 26 Chinese sailors from their abusive captain in New York, and his subsequent legal trouble. Yet, even with this highly accessible 1985 revised edition, this eBook is worth producing for three reasons: