476 case with the new wheel. He says that the engineer who brought the 'Cluett' up from New York to Boston had trouble with the flywheel through its loose- ess but that when he (the former engineer) left the vessel at Boston he merely put the key in place and said nothing about the real trouble with the engine. The 'Cluett' had not proceeded an hour from Boston on her way to St. John's before the key worked out of the slot, and Cotton's troubles began. Cotton says that the hole in the exhaust was then troublesome and kept getting worse. He urged Captain Pickels to have the hole mended in Sydney, but the latter refused because he was afraid that if he began on the engine he would find other things that would have to be done. Cotton tried to have him get something with which to make the repairs on