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was back in Callao to catch the Christmas and also
the New Year of eighteen sixty eight, then we sailed again
for queenstown in Ireland for orders, and made a fair run
as far as Cape Horn with a gale behind us this time and Cape
Horn in sight, and after rounding the cape we made a
lovely passage to queenstown in ninety days, and got orders
for Glasgow, where we arrived in two weeks, and got paid
off in port Glasgow and then of to Leith by train, after being
away eighteen months, then I joined one of the Leith Hull and
Hamburg companies Steamers called the Dresden running to
Stettin in Germany. I run in her for six months until the Win-
ter drove us out of that trade, for it was a severe Winter in the
Baltic that year. Anyhow I left her in Leith. And joined a ship
called the James Wishart. She was a ship that was built at Mortons
in Leith. and at this time she was lying in Sunderland loading
for Calcutta. And the Captain came through to Leith to get his
crew, as he wanted a crew of eighteen able seamen from Leith
as the ship belonged to Leith. But appearingly this Captain had
a very bad name amongst the Leith sailors, and there was
none cared about shipping with him, only myself and another
man called Bob Laurie. So of we went to Sunderland and had
a week there, and sailed for Calcultta and arrived there at
the princes mooring alongside of the Esplanade in the be-
ginning of eighteen sixy nine after a passage of one hundred
and twenty days . We was there about three months, dischar-
ging then commenced to load cotton, jute and castor oil
for Hamburg in Germany. Now that was the year the Suez
Canal was opened. Anyhow sailed and the Tug Huns-
don towed us down the river Hoogley two hundred miles into
the Bay of Bengal and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in fifty
days and another fifty five days we was in the English chan-
nel, laying of Deal with our signals up for a pilot to take
the ship ac[c]ross the north sea, but there was no pilot came
off so as there was a fair wind blowing over squared away
and ran ac[c]ross the North Sea and picked up a German
pilot and took us in to BremarHaven and Anchored
for the night, and in the morning at day light we hove up