Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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1
felt
that
I had no busine.. to be etl¥lI1& in tu:rope while
the
good people at btlWe wf.lIted IllEI there, upecially • • e
it
wu
t1laoe
(
or II1II to
be
thinking
of turning my face toward. China again , 80 toward. April I
bad
my P.s'86e taken in the
Arctic . Jortunately.
(
or lome rea.on or another, 1
deltqed g'line
tor
a fortnight , and 10 alcaped be i Il6 on board of her when
1
left
Paris
on
the
14
th of April, laS6. When we got do1Oll t o
Cala1l 110 wu blow1118 so hard
that
the ate8:llel' did not dare to
put out .
'
Ie
spent the night IIIOlt miserably in
the
rallwlQ' station, and, indeed, did not
get .wtq
till
the
lIIornlnt; of the
I.cond~ .
The
captain of the pauage
boat then announced
hi.
intention of
making
the
attempt , although
he
did
not recOI:Dend WI t o
1.1")'
it ,
but
it
was my last chance to catch
the
ltaSiller
in 'IIh.1eh I had taken my pa..age, and , therefore , I annoWlced my intention
of etarU!I&. Stephen Bullard,
who
W!l1 ..ith IIUI , l&id he should
aho
go .
When t.he little boat. .tucs; her nou outs1d" of CalaJ.• Pler
it
seemed as
t b.o1.lgb.
she
stood on end. We , how8Ver, made a tolerable panage ,
~d
by
keepiIl& right on t o Liverpool , I wa. 1n t1.:ll8 for the Per.ia .
Our
pansee
~o
New
Yo~k
wa••
~emarkablJ
tine one . It teemed a. 1f
the
gale we had
befo~e
start1!1£'
had.
bloWD. .11 the wind .w81. There wa.
ha~d1y
•
~lpple
on
the pauage, and thil
wa.
the reuon that
we
lI\fI.d.e what
w~
••
ald to be the
,
ho~t.e.t
on
~ecord.
nlne
~I
and ,evsnteen houri . SeTeral men who beclI'lIlI
fa:noua
afterward.
we~e
on board. There wa. General Y.cLelb ..... with Col.
Delafield and )./ajar )lordecai , who were .lU.lt returning frOlll 8 tour
df
1
nepec-
•
Han in tlJe
C~imea .
where t he,Y had been eent by our G.overrunent to :report
on w111tary matter.. There w•• alto Peter
Po~ter ,
c.lled Prinee of Niagara ,
from
hi'
family
bavi~
l arge pOl!Bee.10ne ln t hat vicinity . We lI\fI.d.e UD a
very pleaaant table WlIOug us. Po r ter , 1 ••w • good deal of afterward• • ani!
made
hiIlI •
vi&1t on
hi,
paternal acrel .
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