we all were very comfortable on board of her,
till the 16th day of February, when we fell in
with an English brig who had lost her foremast
and bowsprit, by running foul of an
iceberg; and she lost five men overboard
when the accident happened, so had only
four men left. Our captain asked us if we
would go on board of the brig to assist our
countrymen, and we agreed to go on board of
the brig; and you may depend we left the
Bremen ship with a heavy heart, for they all
had been so kind to us; and our old captain
was kind enough to give us a spare spar for
to rig a jury foremast; and he told the master
of the brig to pay the price of the spar to
us, if it pleased God to send him safe into
port. We all thanked the captain heartily
for his kindness towards us, and we parted
company.

Now the brig that we got on board of,
was called the "Spring-flower," belonging to
Liverpool; and she was last from Port Royal,
Jamaica, bound to Liverpool. She sailed from
Port Royal under convoy of a frigate; but
being very deeply laden, and a very dull
sailor, she lost the convoy in a gale of wind;
and a few days afterwards she had the misfortune
to run foul of an iceberg, and lost her
foremast and bowsprit, and five of her men.
When we came on board of the brig, we found
the master, two men, and a boy, and us six
coming on board, made ten altogether; and we
turned to with a good will, and got our shears
up, and rigged our jury foremast and
bowsprit, which, with God's help, we finished the
second day; so that we were able to set a
maintop gallant sail for a fore-topsail, and a
lower studding sail for a foresail, and a fore-
topmast staysail for a jib. Now the captain
of the brig being well pleased with our work,
and seeing we were very short of clothing,
and especially when he heard how we got on
board of the Bremen ship, was kind enough
to give us the men's clothes that had been
drowned, for our use; and the mate of the
brig being drowned, he made me mate in his
stead, for I was the only man out of the
whole that could read and write. Now the
brig had been out a long time at sea, and
though she was bound to England, we could
not attempt a passage to England in that
time of the year, and the state the vessel was
in. The Island of Bermuda was the nearest
land to us, so we steered for Bermuda, where
we arrived safe on the 3rd day of March,
1803.

Now when we got to Bermuda, there being
one of the owner's agents there, we discharged
our cargo; and the brig being found unfit to
go to sea without a thorough repair, we were
paid off; and the captain paid us the same
wages that would have been due to his old
crew that had been drowned; and the agent
gave the twenty-five dollars to divide amongst
me and my shipmates, for exerting ourselves
in bringing the "Spring-flower" safe into
port.

And now being upon my own hands again,
and having a little money and a few clothes,
me and my old shipmate, the Guernsey
man, shipped on board of a brig called the
"Sprightly," about one hundred and twenty
tons burden, and she was bound to Barbadoes,
one of the West India Islands, and we sailed
from Bermuda on the 2nd day of April, 1803,
and we arrived at. the Island of Barbadoes,
after a pleasant passage, the latter end of
April; and I traded, on board of the
"Sprightly," from one island to another, till
August, 1804. And I had made a good bit of
money by this time, when, on the 24th day of
August, 1804, we were coming up to windward,
and I had the middle watch: it was
just after two o'clock in the morning, for I
had just been relieved from the helm; the
weather being very thick and hazy, we were
run down by a large ship, called the "Big
Ann," of London. She came down upon us
so quick and unawares, that I had only just
time to get hold of her bobstays, and I sung
out to the rest of them that was on deck; but
only one, beside myself, had the good fortune
to save himself, and that was the mate of the
brig. The rest of the crew, six in number,
found a watery grave. The captain of the
"Big Ann" tried the best that he could do,
for he hove his ship to directly, and lowered
two boats down, and pulled about in our
direction. We could not see anything of the
brig or of the unfortunate crew; so, when
everything was quiet again on board and
made sail again, the captain called the mate
and me, and asked us the particulars about
our brig, and we told him all we knew about
it. He sent us down below, and told us to lay
down till the morning, and he would see what
he could do for us; but, for my part, I could
not sleep, and I believe my partner in
misfortune was the same, for I heard him getting
up, every now and then, and singing out for
one of his old shipmates, or singing out "Hard
a-starboard! there she comes."  I went to him
and tried to quiet him, but it was of no use,
for by the morning he was raving mad; and
the captain and some of the passengers did
all they could for him by bleeding him and
giving him what medicines they thought
would do him good; but all was of no use, for
he died the next day about four o'clock in the
afternoon. And now, I being the only one
that was saved from the "Sprightly's" crew,
however all well and hearty only twenty-four
hours ago, I knelt down and thanked the
Almighty Giver of all good for his wonderful
mercy towards me; and I felt greatly relieved
afterwards.

Now the ship that I was in was from London,
bound to Port Royal, Jamaica, and she had a
good many passengers on board, and the captain
was kind enough to make a collection for me,
and he collected forty-seven dollars for me,
which he gave me, in the name of the passengers,
for the loss of my clothes, and I returned
them my sincere thanks for their kindness;