in this conversation, because I did not wish to discuss his plans fully yet. Too early for that and there is too much time left before my departure in which to change his mind. The foregoing re- mark was elicited by my saying that I wanted him to take all my coal to North Star Bay on his way out and that Peter would help him unload it there. The sub officers and crew of the "Chu- ett" are getting very anxious over the prospects of their being reduced to very short rations or almost none at all before the winter is over, and tings looks as if there would be very serious trouble between them and the captain before even my party gets away from the vessel. If the insurance company knew of the disabled condition of the ship, or account of its broken crank shaft