On the 6th of May we received a letter which was written previous to the gale, from which we learned that the vessel lost at Bow was the brig _Niagara_,[51] Capt. Nathaniel Brown, and that she was from Salem. Nothing particular occurred until the 22nd of May, 1831, when a sail was seen standing for the anchorage at 5 P. M. At sundown we were on board and she proved to be the schooner _Harriet_, Capt. Young, from the Sandwich Islands and last from Wallis Island. They took us all on board the schooner and after procuring the cables, anchors, etc., of our ship we proceeded for Bow. On the 9th of June, we arriv’d off Averlon and found there the bark _Peru_,[52] Capt. Egleston, of and from Salem. Captain Egleston took Capt. Archer, Mr. Burnham and the remainder of our crew on board; likewise the Captains Brown and Vanderford[53] of the _Niagara_ with the officers and crew and we proceeded on our course to Bow, where we arrived on June 10th, and anchored off the island where Mr. Manini, supercargo of the schooner, purchased the cables and anchors of the brig _Niagara_, from the King of Bow. Having succeeded in getting them on board we got underweigh and ran down to Avalon and anchored near the bark _Peru_. Capt. Brown came on board the schooner and Capt. Young agreed to forward us to the Sandwich Islands. On the 26th of June, we lost sight of the Fegee Islands, steering to the N. E. for Wallis Island[54] and arriving there three days later, we found the brig _Chinchilla_,[55] Capt. Meek. Capt. Young not finding it for his interest to return to the Sandwich Islands at present, on the 12th July sailed, intending to return in the space of 6 or 8 weeks, leaving us to reside in their houses and wait for his return. [Illustration: SHIP CHINCHILLA OF NEW YORK “Scrimshawed” on a whale’s tooth. Presented to the East India Marine Society of Salem in 1825 by Capt. William Osgood. Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.] After a long and most tedious stay on this island, on the 8th of November, the American whale-ship _Braganza_[56] arrived from a cruise off Japan for the purpose of procuring vegetables, water, etc. On the 26th, the brig _Chinchilla_ arrived from Port Jackson, having been obliged to put into that port for provisions. Finding that Capt. Meek was not to return to the Sandwich Islands at present and no chance offering for a passage to a civilized port, I went on board of the _Braganza_, it being the intention of Capt. Wood to cruise for whales about the Equator for the space of 4 or 5 months and then to proceed to some port for supplies, where I should probably find an opportunity to return to the United States.