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Rh island. They proceeded on their passage to Callao, taking us three along with them. We were all treated kindly, and on the 28th June reached Callao, where we were all treated kindly by the people there. On the same evening I sailed by the mail steamer for England, leaving the mate and the seaman in Callao. On the 6th July I sailed from Panama; on the 13th arrived at St. Thomas, and sailed same day for Southampton by the steamship "Shannon," meeting with the greatest kindness from all on board the several ships I sailed in.'

The following additional particulars of the loss of the Invercauld, and the adventures of the survivors, taken from the Melbourne Illustrated Post of the 25th October, will no doubt be acceptable here, though involving to some extent a repetition of the above:—

"Information has been received by way of England, of the wreck, on the Auckland Islands, of the ship Invercauld, a vessel of 888 tons, Captain George Dalgarno, which sailed from Melbourne for Callao, in ballast, on the 28th of April, 1864. The circumstances attending the wreck of the Invercauld are of a peculiarly painful nature, and such as are likely to excite in the minds of this community more than ordinary interest, while the details of the narrative furnished by Captain Musgrave, of the schooner Grafton, containing so harrowing an account of the miseries and privations endured by himself and his shipwrecked crew on that barren and desolate isle, are so fresh in the memories of the inhabitants of this colony. The Invercauld carried no passengers, and her crew consisted (with the captain) of 25 persons. Mitchell's Maritime Register of the 5th of August has the following with reference to the disaster:—

The Invercauld, Captain Dalgarno, from Melbourne to