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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br~d
a good deal about her $ailing, but did not meet with much credence.
Finally .h.
wa.
entered in a race, and to the ..tOll1elunent ot everyone
_
he
reached the home
_
take
betore the other boat. made the turnJ Thil e.-
tab11lhed her reputation, and I bO\lght her Cor $250. I
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ahe 'IRe never beaten. She
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a Tar')' .:ztraordinary boat. She .ailed
without dead welght tor ball.,t: all her ballaet wal
the
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ormsd
the orn'.
sailing
her
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knack,
and wae done principally bl lceeping
the Jib lheet in hand, and Balling
it
when
the
boat wee too lIIUCh prelled.
She would then really
take
a
Jump t.o
windward! Her ,reat fault _. a
.
diapodtion to tuxn turtle,
but
there waB no danger, ai, being Without
ballut, ahe could not
dnk:.
I bave cap.hed her
without
t;etting wet above
the kneel, and 1t ie an actual fact
that
I have
cap.hed
her in a raee,
righted her and gone on and won the raee! I wore her Ollt, but before
dolll£
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lent to her builder,
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J'hh of lie'll' York, for another boat
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ke her, but four feet longer. She came out but never could .al1 at
all, and no one lIa. ever able to eXplain
it.
She 'II'a. called the
Fann;r
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good
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torle. might be told of our rOlling
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in Canton,
but they would be of 11 t tle interest to otherl.
In 1845, or 1846, I forget which, occurred what
ho.
called "the
J,!al8acre of Hwanc-chukee." Six gentle1olen, ell En{;l1.h, landed on the bflllk.
of the river, a few mile. aboTe the factoriel, for an atternoon' ••troll.
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that wa. actuall1 knO'/lll of lIhat occurred wal that an atfrtl¥ took place
between theill IUld the villa,ger.,
in
which they were all killed, haTing
killed two of their opponents
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n
their turn •
.
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they were knO'/lll to haTe
gone on the river, and al they did not return at nightfall, the
c~ity
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a ll alarmed, search partin were organhed, and their fate lIal kn01lll late
in the e't"ell.illl;.
Naturally, the greateet excitement e:d.ted. and reference
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