I then ordered the guns to be loaded, made sail, and made a tack towards the boats. On my coming up with them, found that my mate had taken the captain and his men out of the boat and taken them into his, Captain Jellard's boat having a great quantity of water in, very nearly up to the thwarts, also a large shark, and had her in tow.

"After getting Captain Jellard on board, and his men, who were in a very weak state, not able to speak with the exception of the black man; from him I got all the particulars, as follows: it appeared that they belonged to the schooner Janus Hambleton, of Grenada, from America, bound to Grenada, and being short of water, having a very long passage through light winds, were going on shore for water on the Island of Saints, it then being calm. After leaving their ship a light breeze sprang up and the schooner kept her ground, but the boat pulling in a different direction and the current running so strong that the boat's crew became quite exhausted. That at daylight they had the mortification of seeing the schooner inshore of them as far as they could see from the boat, the boat still drifting farther from land and ship until they lost sight of her altogether. The following day they had a very dreadful time of it; it blew a heavy gale, with thunder and lightning; they had to make fast the oars, mast and sail to the painter of the boat, and let the boat drift to break off the sea that was running. During all this time they had no water or anything to eat.

The following day was nearly calm, very light winds and a hot scorching sun; being in the latitude of 16° 21', longitude 63° 14', their sufferings were very great all day. Both captain and men tore their clothes off their backs and poured water on themselves to keep them cool. On the morning that I discovered them the black man appealed to his God, saying, 'If God hear black man as well as white man, pray send me fish or shark for massa to eat, no let him die'. The all - merciful Father heard his prayers and sent him a large shark, which was lying in the boat on her being brought alongside, of which they had drunk the blood and eaten part of the flesh. I immediately knocked in the head of a water puncheon and made them a warm bath and put them severally into it for the purpose of cooling them and getting some parts of their shirts off their skin which were sticking to their backs, their skin being all blistered with the sun and salt water. I gave them a little tea to moisten their mouths every few minutes, until some of them prayed for food and asked for some biscuit, and gave them rice water and barley water occasionally. After a good sleep Captain Jellard sent for me below and wished to speak to me.

On searching his pockets to see if the black man had told the truth about his ship. I found his register and manifest of his cargo. This satisfied me all was correct, and that they were not pirates. During our conversation I found that I had been in company with Captain Jellard in St Johns, Newfoundland, in 1814, he then commanding a fine schooner called the Catch Mr Who Can belonging to Spuryar & Co. of CooL

"In a few days they all came round. I gave them up to the British Consul at Carthagena and requested him to lose no time to send them on, as we feared that something would be brought against the mate of the schooner. Captain J el lard having all his papers with him. On my arrival in England, I found that Captain Jellard only arrived there three days previous to the execution of his mate and remaining three men, they having been tried for murdering their captain and the other three men Had not the Consuls sent them over in the packet to Jamaica, and requested the admiral to send them up to Grenada with all despatch, these four poor souls would have lost their lives innocently.

(Signed) "Daniel, Scott,

"Commanding the brig 'Ocean' from (illegible) bound to Carthagena"

given in a dream. This book is concerned exclusively with dreams, and reference would be out of place to the many well-known stories of families who perceive a particular vision or noise before the death of one of their members. Apparently these instances are too well authenticated for the dogmatic disbelief of even the most sceptical; for the most part men say that "there must be something in it," but what the "something" is, neither they nor any other can explain.

This "something" also has existed in dreams. This " something" has come to warn men of another's death or their own. Is it a spirit from another world - another intelligence outside our own that has a wider knowledge of the future than we can even hope to attain - or what? Professor O. Y. Lodge says: "It is just possible that these other intelligences, if they in any sense exist, may be able to communicate with us by the same sort of process as that by which we are now learning to be able to communicate with each other". Be our theory what it may, the fact remains that death premonitions have undoubtedly occurred in dreams. We grope blindly in the dark for an explanation, to find none, only to come up against the solid fact. We know so little, and we feel so much, and the search for the little we know amongst the much that we feel is a veritable hunting for a diamond on the seashore.

I knew a clever man who argued violently against what he was pleased to call the supernatural; he said that there was no such thing; it was against all well- known laws; he denied it absolutely, and declared that the persons who argued otherwise were "credulous fools"; then he had an "experience" of his own. I remember his remarking: "I never felt such an ignorant fool in my life, as when I thought how often I had argued against the supernatural. I shall never again say that anything is impossible, just because I know nothing of it!"

Surely it behoves us to keep an open mind, without prejudice one way or the other. Too great a credulity is as injurious as too great a scepticism.